On Friday May 17, 2024 I played my home course of Avalon Links in Burlington WA, the North course with 3 other players. Playing from the White Tee’s, the day started as kind of a “grinder” round, had to work hard to save a bogey out of the sand on the 1st. On the par 3 hole #2, I hit a 9 iron, good swing and contact, to a 125 yd pin that one hoped into the cup for a 1st in my 25+ year golfing career “hole-in-one”. I’d only witnessed 2 others while playing. 3 holes later on the next par 3, hole #5, I hit a 4 iron, again well struck,into a light wind to a 178 yd pin that checked on the greens false front and slow released over the crown down to the flag stick and dropped for a 2nd “hole-in-one” on the same day, consecutive par 3’s. When we got back to the club house I bought a couple beers each for the guys I was playing with. Our club pro over-heard the celebration and came out and said he’d done a quick internet search and said the odds of 2 “holes-in-one” in a round were “67 million to 1”. I guess sometimes “Dumb Luck” comes in a dump truck.
