He was relatively prepared in the scheme of things, with his clubs with him, and bought 50 balls for $50.<\/p>\n
He said initially he was off target – short then long – but by about ball number 15 he sailed one into the blue flag hole – which is sized larger than a regular golf hole.<\/p>\n
The red flag, for the smaller hole of the two, wins those who sink a ball $10,000.<\/p>\n
Haze Nukunuku said he had hit about 15 balls before the first one went in. <\/p>\n
He said it took two crew members to confirm his success, but he still didn\u2019t believe he had got it in.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust for my own sake and peace of mind, I walked over to where the binoculars were and had a look myself and was like \u2018yea it actually is in\u2019. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was trying to keep it suppressed because I didn\u2019t want to get my hopes up, so I wasn\u2019t yahooing.\u201d<\/p>\n
With more balls left in the bucket, the lucky golfer decided to continue playing, but by this time the wind had picked up and he made a call to switch clubs.<\/p>\n
\u201cFour or five balls later, something like that, give or take, one bounced and went in, and I was like \u2018what the heck is going on\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he was left gobsmacked and pinching himself after winning a Taup\u014d bungee jump and para-sailing trip as prizes. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey kept telling me that it was the first time they had been working that it happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt surreal, actually, we were just passing through and didn\u2019t expect much of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lake Taup\u014d Hole in One took to social media to congratulate Nukunuku and said he scored \u201ctwo of the cleanest blue hole-in-ones in [our] history\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cUsing a gap wedge and pitching wedge as his weapons of choice… Haze landed in the blue bunker (twice).\u201d <\/p>\n
Nukunuku said on his drive home, he returned to the lakefront to attempt the challenge again, but attributed his lack of success this time to an injury sustained while on holiday. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not making excuses, it\u2019s not my style, but we did 10-pin bowling and I hurt my lower back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite this, he managed to land 20 balls on the platoon. <\/p>\n
Michaela Gower joined Hawke\u2019s Bay Today in 2023 and is based out of the Hastings newsroom. She covers Dannevirke and Hawke\u2019s Bay news and loves sharing stories about farming and rural communities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was relatively prepared in the scheme of things, with his clubs with him, and bought 50 balls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[1929,64,63,9826,15256,249,2582,755,99189,9492,171063,84856,304,5023,4717,16371,6459,171062,120600,11554,171064,60083,13883,85,171061,126725,5786,33370,104742,8289,77200,29525,316],"class_list":["post-299097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-at","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bay","tag-challenge","tag-experience","tag-family","tag-golf","tag-golfing","tag-hawkes","tag-haze","tag-hits","tag-holes","tag-holiday","tag-in","tag-into","tag-lake","tag-legs","tag-lifetime","tag-man","tag-nukunuku","tag-once","tag-one","tag-sports","tag-started","tag-stop","tag-stretch","tag-taup","tag-then","tag-turned","tag-twice","tag-two","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}