It actually went in.
Senior Patrick Adler wouldn’t be pranked this time.
It wasn’t like a Big East Tournament practice round three years ago, where Adler thought he holed out on a par-4 only to be told at team dinner that his heroics were tomfoolery.
This time, it was real, and Adler’s first hole-in-one at the 201-yard par-3 16th was the dagger in his quarterfinal match-play victory over Shane McDermott en route to becoming the South of Ireland champion at Lahinch Golf Club, a course he grew up playing.