90-Year-Old La Grange Park Woman Gets Hole-In-One

INDIAN HEAD PARK, IL – La Grange Park's Marlene Wiet is not your average golfer: She is 90. She suffers from a blood cancer. And she often walks the nine-hole course.

What's more is that she got a hole-in-one Tuesday at Flagg Creek Golf Course in Indian Head Park.

Many longtime golfers never achieve such a feat. But it's the second time for Wiet, the first happening seven years ago, her family says.

Wiet, a former longtime Lemont resident, was with family when she got the hole-in-one Tuesday on the eighth hole.

Her family filmed the moment as Wiet took the ball from the hole.

"We have video of us screaming," Wiet's daughter, Liz Van Tassel, said in an interview. "The girls from the (Lyons Township High) golf team were on the driving range. They saw us screaming, so they started screaming. It was really cool."

Van Tassel, a La Grange resident, said her mother is a legend for her fortitude.

"She's a fireball. She suffers from blood cancer, which gives her side effects that would absolutely debilitate someone else," Van Tassel said.

Wiet moved to La Grange Park from Lemont last year after her husband, Stan Wiet, died at 92. She lives in Bethlehem Woods Village, a retirement complex.

Wiet likes to go polka dancing and play pickleball, her daughter said.

Unless it's too hot, like this week, Wiet walks the course, rather than ride a cart, Van Tassel said.

"She's an inspiration to all of us," Van Tassel said. "She runs circles around us some days."

Michele Sullivan, the golf course's assistant manager, said she was on duty when the hole-in-one happened.

"It was very exciting. We get several holes-in-one each year," Sullivan said in an interview. "(Wiet) is amazing. She is 90 years old. Here she is playing, and it's toasty out there, and she knocks the hole-in-one."

Marlene Wiet, a La Grange Park resident, picks the ball out of the eighth hole Tuesday at Flagg Creek Golf Course. She got a hole-in-one. (Courtesy of Liz Van Tassel)