THE odds of a person getting a hole in one happens to be one in 12,500, so three of them on the same day is pretty special.
And that’s exactly what happened at Maleny Golf Club on St Patrick’s Day when competitors from the Golfer Tour hit the luckiest of streaks.
Maleny Golf Club general manager Steve Porter said the club has a hole in one roughly every six weeks but was very rare for three people to get one in one day, two of who were a husband and wife team.
“It’s unusual to get one hole in one although it happens, but two or three just very unusual and for a husband and wife to do it, I reckon the odds must be in the tens of millions,” he said.
“Liam Turner was the first to get a hole in one on the day on the 1st hole, followed by Gary Macpherson on the 17th hole, and then Gary’s wife on the 1st hole as well.”
Steve said their course is not an easy one to play on and suggested maybe some Irish luck had to do with it.
“Our course is challenging, it’s a beautiful course… the greens are fairly fast and undulating, it looks innocent but it’s not and it’s unique,” he said.
“The luck of the Irish rubbed off on three players, one of our members volunteered to run the BBQ on the day and he is Irish so it must have been him.”
It was also a record-breaking day for the Maleny Golf Club for single day turnover revenue, thanks to the Golfer Tour’s spending on the day.