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After holing out at in the final round of the BMW PGA Championship earlier this month, Rory McIlroy revealed that the 12-man European squad has been mentally prepping for its showdown with the U.S. by immersing themselves in VR abuse.—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025 Everything was in their wheelhouse until Buttler holed out off a clever Tector slower ball.—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 Justin Rose of England acknowledges the crowd after holing out on the 18th hole during the final round of The 152nd Open championship at Royal Troon on July 21, 2024 in Troon, Scotland.—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025 Originally a cleave in a wall, an actual hole out of which to shoot an arrow, its meaning metamorphized into the process by which a business gets away with something designed, but not well designed, not to be gotten away with.—Literary Hub, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for hole out
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