Golf Digest says that the odds of two players in a foursome scoring back-to-back holes-in-one are 17,000,000 to 1.
Well....17,000,000 foursomes ago two golfers must have done it. Or maybe it was the first bunch in a group 34 million foursomes ago.....never mind.
Two golfers from New Jersey, (can anything good come out of New Jersey) scored back-to-back aces on the 179-yard seventh, downhill part-3 hole...NO! Not at the local putt-putt course. But, then...a 179-yard putt-putt course would be remarkable to see, too, eh?
The first shot was made by a 41-year old using a 6 iron. The ball landed 30 foot from the hole and rolled in.
The second shot was made by a 57-year old using a 5 iron, thus confusing the snot out of golfers everywhere who were thinking that a 5 iron was the secret.
His ball landed in almost the same spot (a giant 100 yard diameter green with a funnel and a track heading to hole?) and rolled in.
Earlier this year a player on the Champions Tour, Bruce Vaughn, scored two aces in two days on different holes at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, NY.
A Japanese player, Yusaku Miyzato, went into bankruptcy for not having hole-in-one insurance when he scored two aces in the same round at the Reno-Tahoe Open last year in Nevada. I think that's where Reno is.
To add even more confusion to already clueless golfers everywhere -
One man used a Titleist Pro V1 bearing the image of and elk and the other played a Titleist NXT.
Let's see now...two possible clubs, two different ages, and two types of balls, one with the picture of an elk with 6 points....that makes 2 x 2 x 2 x 6 x umpteen thousand golf courses for the number of possiblities.
The odds of any weekend hacker figuring the real odds might be equal to the odds of getting another hole-in-one, no?
What's the closest you ever came to getting a hole in one?
Me....I once hit a ball in the right direction without scaring the benonsense out of the other three in my group.
They were hiding in the SUV back at the clubhouse to be sure they were safe.
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