Inspirational. ❤️
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) January 17, 2020
Laurent Hurtubise was born with one arm and started playing golf at age 11.
On Thursday, he made an ace at @theamexgolf. 🙌 pic.twitter.com/0Rpa8FhpyD
Hubertise celebrated the shot by throwing his hat in the air to a roar of cheers.
Hubertise was playing with three-time PGA Tour winner Troy Merritt and tour winner Greg Chalmers.
"It landed around the front of the green and we were all watching it closely as it tracked toward the hole and then bang, it disappeared," Chalmers told the PGA. "We all went up in celebration and Laurent went ballistic and maybe let out a few choice words, but who could blame him? It was an incredible shot."
Hurbertise was born without most of his right arm. That has not held him back. He started playing golf when he was 11. He has played multiple times in this tournament, as well as other PGA events.
Sports are a way for him to assimilate and inspire.
"People have differences and handicaps and whatever, but it was my way to prove that I could be as good as everybody else," he told Mojave Desert News in 2018. "It does feel fulfilling when someone tells me they've been inspired to play a sport because of me."
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