English golfer in incredible 67,000,000/1 feat as he nails TWO hole-in-ones in same round
AN ENGLISH golfer achieved the seemingly impossible – as he hit TWO hole-in-ones in the same round at odds of a whopping 67,000,000/1.
Dale Whitnell teed it up in the second round of the Investec South African Open Championship in Durban on Friday.
And after making a birdie on the first hole, the world No545 nailed his tee shot at the 185-yard par-three second with his seven iron.
Video footage shows the ball pitching just short and left of the stick in the back-left of the green before slowly rolling into the cup – prompting cheers and high-fives of celebration back at the tee box.
Whitnell, 36, then eagled the par-five third to go through the first three holes in five-under-par at the DP World Tour event.
He bogied seventh and 11th – sandwiching a hat-trick of birdies – before repeating his trick at the par-three 12th.
The Colchester star opted for his 50-degree wedge for the 128-yard.
And in incredible scenes he holed out another ace, this time the ball bouncing in.
The person recording the shot from behind the 12th green could be heard on the video shouting: “Oh get in, woohoo!”
And plenty of golf fans lauded Whitnell’s heroic and rare effort on social media.
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One said: “Absolutely insane!”
Another wrote: “That’s bonkers.”
A third joked: “Selfish!”
A fourth replied: “That’s going to be one expensive round in the clubhouse Dale!” in reference to the tradition of buying drinks if a hole-in-one is scored.
A fifth added: “Dale Whitnell’s scorecard looks like when you bring a toddler to the golf course and they just sit in the cart and write down a random number for each hole.”
And a final user thought the graphic showing his “outrageous” first three holes might be a “scoring error”.
Whitnell managed three more birdies and a double bogey and finished his eventful round with a score of 63 to go to nine-under overall.
He turned pro in 2009, finished T60 in his only major appearance at the 2012 Open and secured his solo European Tour victory in Sweden in 2023.
Many pro golfers do not manage a hole-in-one in their entire career – let alone two within 11 holes in the same round.
However, American Brian Harman managed two hole-in-ones in one round at The Barclays in 2015, becoming the third PGA Tour player to do so after amateur Bill Whedon in 1955 and Yusaku Miyazato in 2006.
Englishman John Hudson registered the rare double at the European Tour’s Martini International at Royal Norwich in 1971 while Frank Bensel Jr made back-to-back holes-in-one during the second round of last year’s US Senior Open in Rhode Island.