The English Dale Whitnell could well provide for his good fortune at the Club House after doing two holes in one at the South Africa Open of the European Tour at the Durban Country Club on Friday.
Whitnell had never made a hole in one in the tournament game, but accelerated the second and twelfth in his second round, both among the True, in a Russian mountain 63 that leaves him at nine bass for the tournament, five shots behind the leader of the house Shaun Norris (64) of South Africa.
The National Host Registry in one based in the United States says that the probabilities of two in the same round are 67 million to one.
“Birdà the first and then hit an iron of seven of seven in the second and I didn’t realize that I had entered until I went down the background (in the Green), so it was lovely,” Whitnell said.
“I had five through three (holes), which I had never done before, and then I managed to get another hole in one in 12. It was strange.
“I had everything today. An aerial shot, two bogeys, a double fogey, three eagles and we left nine under the pair, so I can’t complain.”
Whitnell, classified as number 545 in the world, is the second player in the history of the European tour to complete the feat after Andrew Dodt Australian in the Scandinavian teachers in 2013.
He is also the second English after John Hudson got a remarkable ases in consecutive holes in Royal Norwich in 1971.
Reuters
