{"id":233222,"date":"2025-10-23T01:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/233222\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T01:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:20:10","slug":"college-golfer-aces-same-hole-on-the-same-day-in-outrageous-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/233222\/","title":{"rendered":"College Golfer Aces Same Hole On The Same Day In Outrageous Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is being lucky, and there is being whatever this is.<\/p>\n

PublishedOctober 22, 2025 3:03 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedOctober 22, 2025 3:03 PM EDT<\/p>\n

FacebookTwitterEmailCopy Link<\/p>\n

On about a month-to-month basis, you have bizarre hole-in-one<\/a> stories that make the rounds online that seem borderline made up and virtually impossible. October 2025 is no different, but this particular story involving a Division III golfer and his pair of aces may legitimately have you wondering if we’re actually living in a simulation.<\/p>\n

This ridiculous scene took place on October 20 at the Chick-Fil-A Invitational at Stonebridge Country Club in Georgia and involves Sewanee sophomore Niel Phillips.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Phillips, competing on the team’s B squad in the event, began his day on the Par 3 8th hole, which was playing just over 182 yards. Nobody wants to start the day on a relatively lengthy Par 3, but Phillips didn’t seem to mind it too much given that he jarred a six-iron for a hole-in-one to begin his day.<\/p>\n

“It was 8:30 in the morning, first swing of the day, cold, wet, so it was probably more like a 195 shot,” Phillips told NBC Sports<\/a>. “And I just flushed it.”<\/p>\n

Making a hole-in-one with your first swing of the day is some freaky, special stuff, but at the end of the day, it’s just a player making an ace in a tournament.<\/p>\n

For those who may be unaware, in most college tournaments, the first day consists of 36 holes, which happened to be the case at the Chick-Fil-A Invitational. After shooting an even Par 72 on his opening 18 holes, Phillips arrived back at the Par 3 8th hole to begin his second round.<\/p>\n

In what could be seen as a diabolical decision, Phillips didn’t opt for the six-iron he had made a hole-in-one with hours beforehand, and instead grabbed his 7-iron.<\/p>\n

It turned out to be a wise choice by the young man, because he made it, again.<\/p>\n

It is believed to be the first time a college golfer at any level has made an ace on the same hole in back-to-back rounds, which is relatively surprising given the sheer number of college tournaments and college players out there.<\/p>\n

Phillips went on to better his round one score by a shot his second time around.<\/p>\n

As for the hole-in-one balls, well, one is long gone. Phillips explained after the first day of action that he hit the first hole-in-one ball in a water hazard shortly after the first ace.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is being lucky, and there is being whatever this is. PublishedOctober 22, 2025 3:03 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedOctober 22,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-233222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}