Hole in one in 67 million

Golf novice beats the odds to shoot 2 aces in 35 minutes

By GARY D'AMATO
gdamato@journalsentinel.com

Posted: July 5, 2006
Sanjay Kuttemperoor of Brookfield has played about 25 rounds of golf in his life and has never broken 100. He's never even known the satisfaction of marking a birdie on his score card.

"My best score is either a 105 or a 106," he said. "I'm obviously not that good."

Hey, talent is overrated. Ask anyone who's ever won the lottery, or Paris Hilton. Golf is a crazy game, and sometimes, being in the right place at the right time is good enough. On those rare occasions, the stars align and good karma flows and Lady Luck sprinkles pixie dust on your golf ball.

That's one way, maybe the only way, to explain how a 38-year-old novice golfer could do something that even Tiger Woods has never done.

On June 24, Kuttemperoor made two holes-in-one in a five-hole span at Treetops Resort in Treetops Village, Mich. He used his Callaway 8-iron on both shots.

Lloyds of London set the odds for such a feat at 67 million to 1. Based on those odds, a golfer would have to play a round of golf 365 days a year for 183,561 years to accomplish it.

Kuttemperoor did it in, oh, about 35 minutes....

Hole in one in 67 million---Full story here

I've been playing for far too long to have gone without a hole-in-one.

This was in the pro-am for the ING shoot out on ESPN a month back or so.

The guy was talking to Fred Couples later and Freddy was telling him that he'd only had 3 holes in one ever, and this guy had 2 in one round, bouncing one off a tree

What a game!