Golfer Scores 2 Aces On Same Par-4 Hole

RIDGETOWN, Ontario - Golfers have been known to score two holes-in-one on the same par-3 hole, but Pete Brown has done the virtually impossible - scoring two aces on the same par 4 within five days.

Brown, 34, aced the 252-yard, 12th hole on consecutive rounds earlier this month at the Ridgetown Golf and Country Club.

Golf Digest magazine, which has been running a hole-in-one registry since 1952, said the odds for an ace on any single hole in an 18-hole round are 11,000-to-1.

But assistant editor Lois Hanes said aces on par fours are so rare, it's almost impossible to calculate the odds.

"Maybe no one has aced a par-four twice in a row," Hanes said.

The hole Brown got his hole-in-one on bends slightly left from the tee with a grove of trees blocking the view from tee to green.

"I used my driver, which I usually don't do, and hit my tee shot over the trees to the left edge of one of the sand traps," Brown said of his first ace on June 1.

He thought the ball was lost out-of-bounds surrounding the green and dropped another ball. It wasn't until his playing partners, his father Lee and his son Peter Jr., looked in the hole and found the ball.

When he came to the 12th tee on his next round five days later, Brown said he "wasn't even thinking about the first hole-in-one because the chances of that happening aren't very good."

He hit into a strong left-to-right wind and his drive carried around the trees onto the green.

"They said that one of the golfers was lining up a putt and my ball went between his putter and legs right into the hole," Brown said.

"I still can't believe it."

Brown now has six aces in his career.