Why worry about where the ball went?

Today he made history immediately by holing out his opening drive. It is true that he holed it our on the sixteenth green, which lies some three hundred yards away and a good deal to the left of the first tee, but he holed it out, and a gasp went up from the spectators who had assembled to watch the match. If this was what Joseph Stocker did on the first, they said to one another, the imagination reeled stunned at the prospect of the heights to which he might soar in the course of eighteen holes.

(from Rodney Has a Relapse, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)