Golfers hit back-to-back holes-in-one

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Golfers hit back-to-back holes-in-one

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Steve Wilmhurst (l) and Liam Nairn were “overjoyed” to get consecutive holes-in-one

Two golfing friends who achieved consecutive holes-in-one have described the experience as “wonderful”.

Steve Wilmhurst, 58, and Liam Nairn, 70, achieved their extraordinary feat at Studley Wood Golf Club, near Horton-****-Studley in Oxfordshire on Monday.

The ******** golfers were playing the 167-yard par 3 16th ***** with two other players at the time.

According to the National *****-In-One-Registry the odds of two players from the same ********* acing the same ***** is 17 million to 1.

But it said “as great an achievement” as consecutives aces are, “there are too many variables” for it to calculate the odds.

A single player has a 12,000 to 1 shot of making a *****-in-one on their own.

Mr Nairn, who has never had a *****-in-one before, was the first to do so on the day, and was “overjoyed”.

“I was absolutely elated because it was such a rare thing for that kind of thing to happen to me, so I was over the moon,” he said.

“I said to myself: ‘I’ve got a ***** in one – unbelievable.’

“We were all jumping for joy and getting high fives, so a really, really happy occasion.”

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The ******** golfers were playing the 167-yard Par 3 16th *****

Mr Wilmhurst, who last had a *****-in-one 20 years ago, was next to tee off.

“We all watched Liam’s ball go onto the green, then up in the *****,” he explained.

“It hit the pin on the way in so we heard the ball go in as well, and then about 30 seconds later I took my shot and it disappeared, so I walked down to the green thinking I’ve missed and put it in the bunker.”

He added: “When Liam went to get his ball out of the ***** I didn’t believe him when he said: ‘Oh yours is in here as well.’

“I thought he was joking. I had to check it wasn’t the first of April.”

As a result the “second *****-in-one was a bit of an anti-climax because we didn’t see where it went”.

As is tradition, the players bought drinks for everyone attending the bar that afternoon, and signed the club’s *****-in-one book.

“To be fair we do play three or four times a week so the odds decrease with the amount we’ve played,” Mr Wilmhurst joked.

“But it’s a wonderful thing. It doesn’t happen very often.”

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