Jordan Spieth was playing for charity at this week’s Maridoe Samaritan Fund Invitational, but the golf gods weren’t in a giving mood on Thursday. Spieth appeared to make a hole-in-one while playing alongside Tony Romo during the Dallas-area event to raise money for the out-of-work caddies at Maridoe Golf Club, one of Romo’s home courses. Instead, Spieth’s golf ball bounced off a spacer inside the cup on the par-3 17th and into a water hazard. Ouch.

“We were playing a little two-on-two match and my partner was already on the green, about 12 feet, so I said, ‘I may as well go right at it, right?'” said Spieth, who took dead aim at the tucked front pin with sand wedge. “It never left the stick and I knew it was going to land somewhere around the hole and sure enough it landed in the hole.”

So what’s the call, ace or double bogey?

While Spieth’s opponents, including former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, maintained that for purpose of their match it would be scored a double, Spieth had other thoughts.

“I’m going to count it,” said Spieth, who said it’s his first hole-in-one in about four years. “It was one of those ones where it would most likely have stayed in. … I’ve been shut out for a while, so hopefully this is a good omen.”

He added that he would be buying drinks for all: “In a 6-feet-apart way, drinks are on me.”

Spieth was not officially keeping score for the tournament, having missed the first two rounds because of prior obligations. He even took a breakfast ball off the first tee. But he was glad to be a part of the event, which included several fellow PGA Tour pros.

“It was really fun to be out here playing in something competitive,” Spieth said. “I was bummed to have missed the last couple of days, but being out here today it’s very easy to see that we’re able to do this in a social-distancing kind of way and most importantly be able to raise money for the caddies out here so that they can get through these tough times until we can get back to normal. … We had fun in the same process of being able to kind of help out, and all in all that’s a win-win for all.

“I was pumped to be out here today. I really hope we’re able to do something like this maybe next month, too, as we start to gear up for the season.”

This article originally appeared on – Golf Channel & Golf Digest