Two amateur golfers achieved consecutive holes-in-one at Studley Wood Golf Club in Oxfordshire. Steve Wilmhurst, aged 58, and Liam Nairn, aged 70, described the experience as “wonderful”. The two golfers were playing the 167-yard par 3 16th hole with two other players at the time of the achievement.
The National Hole-In-One-Registry has said that the odds of two players from the same foursome acing the same hole is 17 million to 1. However, it has stated that there are “too many variables” to calculate the odds of consecutive aces. A single player has a 12,000 to 1 shot of making a hole-in-one on their own.
Mr. Nairn, who has previously never had a hole-in-one, was the first to do so on the day and was “overjoyed”. Mr. Wilmhurst, who last had a hole-in-one 20 years ago, was next to tee off. His experience of the second hole-in-one was an anti-climax because he didn’t see where it went.
As tradition dictates, the players bought drinks for everyone attending the bar that afternoon and signed the club’s hole-in-one book. Mr. Wilmhurst joked that the odds decreased with the amount they’d played: “to be fair, we do play three or four times a week”.
This extraordinary event sets a very high bar for other golfers trying to achieve the same feat. It is unlikely they will even get close to performing consecutive hole-in-ones, but it is always worth trying. Golfers can only dream of and aspire to accomplish what these two golfing friends have achieved
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