Two golfers playing just days apart have managed to tee-off and hit their ball straight into a garbage bin on the tenth hole at the Ocean Shores Country Club course.
‘To do it once is one in a million, for it to happen twice within a week is one in ten million,’ keen golfer Michael Krilich said.
Before Christmas his golfing partner Bill Nichols was playing his usual Monday round of skins with his favourite foursome in the Stableford comp at the Country Club when they got to the 10th and the most unsual thing happened.
‘They got to the 10th and skins were squared away, so it was a new skin. His three playing mates’ tee shots were off the tee fairly successfully and Bill teed it up and slammed his drive. “Did you see that”, he said.’
It was a full-blooded drive for a full 48 metres to the left and straight into the bin.
Recounting the feat and mentioning that it was his first and only ‘hole in one’, club legend Eddie Pittendrigh remarked that the ‘hole in one was sheer garbage’.
But the story didn’t end there. ‘On the Saturday after, member Steve Bravington holed out in the same bin with his tee shot,’ Michael said.
The good news for Bill, a 29-marker player, was that he managed to go on and win the hole, and the skin.
A miraculous feat considering he managed to pick out the bin, endure a penalty shot and then go back to the tee to start the hole again.
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