Englishman Dale Whitnell carded a outstanding two holes-in-one throughout his spherical on the second day of the South Africa Open.
Whitnell aced the 179-yard second and repeated the trick on the 149-yard twelfth at Durban Nation Membership.
The 36-year-old instantly adopted his first hole-in-one with an eagle and he was chasing a outstanding 13-under-par 59 till making a double bogey – together with an air shot – on the sixteenth.
His eventual rating of 63 beat his level-par Thursday spherical by 9 pictures.
“Coming again this morning I knew I used to be struggling to make the reduce, so I knew I wanted to exit and play effectively and I acquired off to a scorching begin,” Whitnell instructed DP World Tour.
“I birdied the primary and hit a flush seven iron on the second, I did not realise it had gone in till they cheered down on the backside.
“Then I acquired one other hole-in-one on the twelfth. Weird.
“It is a bizarre feeling, every part in a single. I used to be excited and adrenalin was pumping, however I needed to deal with my job and managed to try this OK.”
Whitnell, who hails from Essex and sits 545th on this planet rankings, had by no means beforehand achieved a hole-in-one in competitors.
The US-based Nationwide Gap-in-One Registry says the chances of carding two in the identical spherical are 67 million to 1.
Whitnell is simply the second Englishman to have made two holes-in-one in the identical spherical in skilled competitors, after John Hudson, who achieved the feat within the European Tour’s Martini Worldwide at Royal Norwich in 1971.
Hudson’s double was made much more spectacular by the truth that he managed to do it throughout successive holes, with the second coming at a 314-yard par 4.
American Frank Bensel Jr additionally made two holes-in-one on consecutive holes at the 2024 US Senior Open.
