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I think this is basically a game of telephone from "DPRK news reports Supreme Leader got 5 hole-in-ones" to "11 hole-in-ones" to that. The original story is that DPRK news did actually report him getting 5 hole-in-ones, but they did so because of a score-keeping mix-up where the caddy was recording relative to par, with the lowest he got being 1 above par on 5 holes, and someone along the line who was unfamiliar assuming that it was just the number of strokes.
Honestly five bogeys is really good for a non-professional. Even for a professional it's pretty high up there depending on the course.
The commentary I read noted that too, saying the correct score is also unlikely. Idk, are there other practices, ones that might be used for scoring newbies, that might have lowered his score?
It might be right. If there aren't that many courses in NK, if you play the same course enough times you can get really good at it. It is not outside of reason that he had one really good game and they reported on it. Honestly depending on how much he played , it might be more odd if he never had a good game..
afaik he only played one game, but I don't really know
Is it possible that that also was a sort of score handicap? Like for every hole he took a 1-2 stroke handicap? Then with that addition he got 5 at one above par?
Could also very easily be he cheated to get 1 above par. Honestly couldn't give less of a shit but exploring the possibilities
That was my guess but I know nothing about golf
That is also possible and they forgot to note it.