{"id":3443,"date":"2025-10-01T14:02:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/amateur-golfer-defies-remarkable-odds-by-hitting-two-holes-in-one\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:02:48","slug":"amateur-golfer-defies-remarkable-odds-by-hitting-two-holes-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/amateur-golfer-defies-remarkable-odds-by-hitting-two-holes-in-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur golfer defies remarkable odds by hitting two holes-in-one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-10-01 14:02:46<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>An amateur golfer has described his shock after hitting two holes-in-one in a single round \u2014 an achievement so rare the odds are estimated at 67 million to one.<BR><br \/>\nGavin Bourne, 47, landed the double ace during the 36-hole club championship final at Droitwich Golf Club in Worcestershire on Sunday (28.09.25).<BR><br \/>\nThe heating engineer, who has played golf for more than 30 years with a 0.4 handicap, struck his first perfect shot on the third hole and then repeated the feat on the fifteenth, securing him the club title.<BR><br \/>\nSpeaking to the BBC, Bourne said: &#8220;Every golfer\u2019s dream is to have a hole-in-one and then to have two in one round is just absolutely incredible.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nHe told England Golf how the moment unfolded: &#8220;We saw it land but you can\u2019t really see the green\u2026 I said, \u2018Am I going to look a bit daft if I walk up to the green without my putter?\u2019 And there it was!&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nWhen the feat happened again 12 holes later, Bourne admitted: &#8220;I was like, \u2018No way. You\u2019re having me on here.\u2019 You can\u2019t really put it into words to be honest.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-10-01 14:02:46 An amateur golfer has described his shock after hitting two holes-in-one in a single round \u2014 an achievement so rare the odds are estimated at 67 million to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}