Queen of Aces

Dottie Farmer displays the swing that has produced 22 aces. Photos: Scott Michaux, Global Golf Post
GREENSBORO, GEORGIA | This couldn’t really be happening, could it? It took a few seconds to register because my focus was on the screen of my iPhone, snapping a sequence of photos as Dottie Farmer hit on the 96-yard uphill par-3 11th hole at The Landing at Reynolds Lake Oconee in January of 2022. But the gaze quickly redirected to that white ball sailing through a blue winter sky heading straight for the flag. I mean, right at it.
The bottom of the pin wasn’t visible, tucked as it was in a hollow of green behind a bunker. The ball came down right at the base of the flagstick and disappeared behind the curve of dormant bermudagrass hiding the putting surface. It didn’t reappear on the sliver of visible green behind the flag, so ...

Seriously, nobody could be this lucky. Let me clarify that: Dottie Farmer could be that lucky. But certainly not the golf writer who came to see the 72-year-old retired middle school teacher from Delaware who...