Sign up for our special edition newsletter to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.

In this new reality, even good things can be taken away. But Jordan Spieth had other plans.

He made sure his hole-in-one counted, even if the plastic spacer, placed inside the cup so players don’t have to touch the flag, knocked the ball out.

Spieth was taking part in a 54-hole fundraiser at the Maridoe Samaritan Fund Invitational as his home club when his tee shot at the 110-yard, par-3 17th hole hit the spacer and bounced out, according to The Golf Channel.

“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.”

The ball hit the spacer on the fly and ended up in the water after hitting the flagstick. Depending on the interpretation, it could be ruled a hole-in-one or a double-bogey.

“I’m going to count it,” Spieth, a three-time major champion, said. “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.”

Jordan Spieth putting spacer back in place after hitting it on the fly with his tee ball. “May as well count it, why not?” pic.twitter.com/blL1oeqIkv

— Brentley Romine (@BrentleyGC) April 30, 2020

Spieth was not keeping score, since he missed the first two rounds of the tournament. He was just glad to be active and involved as the novel coronavirus pandemic has shut down sports. The PGA Tour is currently planning to return in mid-June.

“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.”