Golfers dream of scoring a hole in one, so imagine Amie Flanagan’s elation when she scored not one but two aces during a charity event last Sunday.
Playing in the Apex Charity Day at the Maleny Golf Club, Ms Flanagan first holed out on the par-3 seventeenth – a green most players struggle to even hold.
Then, still buzzing and brimming with confidence, she stepped onto the tee of the even more difficult par-3 first hole just a few minutes later.
“I’d jokingly said to the boys on my team, ‘Stuff it, I’m gonna get another one’ as we were driving down to the first,” she said.
“I didn’t actually think it was going to happen, and we couldn’t believe it when my ball landed just in front of the pin and rolled straight into the hole.”
The group’s screams of astonishment and jubilation could be heard from the clubhouse when the shot found the cup.
Their four-ball ambrose team, competing in the shotgun start event as the Disruptive Ducks, shot eight-under off the stick on the day – enough to earn bragging rights for second place.
Ms Flanagan, 35, lives at Maroochy River and plays off a handicap of 38 after taking up the game about two years ago during the pandemic.
She now has three aces to her name, having already scored a hole-in-one in May this year.
Maleny Golf Club general manager Stephen Porter said Ms Flanagan’s golfing feat would go down in the club’s annals as a feat unlikely to be ever be repeated.
“Not too long ago we had a husband and wife both score aces during the same round, so you never know,” he said.
Mr Porter said Maleny was popular as a charity golf day venue for service clubs like Apex, which held the event to raise funds to support local athlete Kael Thompson in her pursuit to represent Australia at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
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