For you average golfer, the odds of making a hole-in-one after 12,000 to 1.
The odds for a low-handicap player? Try 5,000 to 1.
Tour player? That would be 3,000 to 1.
The chances of one guy making two aces in a single round? Well, the National Hole-In-One Registry quotes 67 million to 1. Seriously?
Doesn’t specify tour player or average hack but still, that’s a pretty rare feat.
Brian Harman pulled it off this past Sunday during his final round at the Barclays. His first came on the third hole with a seven-iron. The second was more difficult. “The one at 14, was a 4-iron hybrid. I had 220 to the pin and there was a shelf. It hit and started rolling like a putt and I said ‘that one might do it too,” Harman recalled on a Tuesday visit to the Golf Channel.
“I still have both balls,” Harman said of the souvenirs.
Harman treated the press room to cold tubs filled with beer as well as a bottle of Crown Royal. With country club prices, it was no cheap treat. No doubt he had to pick up the tab for a lot of his fellow tour players as well. The two aces helped him shoot 68 and earned him a tie for 30th.
Is he looking forward to his next ace on tour?
“Hopefully it’s somewhere we can get some cheap beer,” Harman quipped.
