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The hole-in-one is probably the most hallowed and elusive feat a golfer can achieve on the course, and anyone who’s spent decades in search of an ace will probably be very, very jealous of the 13-year-old in Kansas who managed to record two of them in the same round.
If the PGA of America is to be believed, the average golfer has a 1 in 12.500 chance of recording an ace every time they step up to the tee box on a par 3 (that number declines to 1 in 5,000 for a low handicap and dips even further to 1 in 3,000 when we’re talking about someone who’s talented enough to play golf for a living).
Checking that almighty hole-in-one off of your bucket list is arguably a matter of luck as much as it is skill. There are plenty of weekend hacks with seemingly no business recording an ace who are nonetheless able to do exactly that, while some people can play golf on a weekly basis their entire lives and never get to experience the rush that comes with sinking one.
Evan Koehn, on the other hand, has only been on this planet for 13 years and playing golf for six of them, but he’s already joined a very, very rare club thanks to what he was able to do with his clubs during a Kansas Junior Golf Tour event on Monday.
According to Kansas.com, Evan had never recorded an ace when he headed to Terradyne Country Club in the suburbs of Witchita. However, that changed when he teed off on the 12th hole (a 118-yard par-3) and hit a shot that landed 15 feet away from the pin before rolling into the cup.
Koehn (who started his round on the back nine) had to settle for par on the next two par-3s before making his way to No. 8 for the final one of the round. Traffic on the course meant approximately 15 people were watching him tee off and witnessed him drop his shot 20 feet from the hole before it rolled in for his second hole-in-one of the day.
If you’re curious, the odds of recording two aces in the same round are around 1 in 67 million.
Must be nice.