\n Gavin Bourne, 47, achieved the incredible feat during the first 18 holes of the Club Championship Match Play Final at Droitwich Golf Club.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 0.4-handicapper, who began playing golf at 13, had only previously recorded one hole-in-one while playing alongside others, when he was a junior.\n<\/p>\n
\n Sunday saw Mr Bourne take on Tom Ainge to see who would be crowned Droitwich Golf Club Champion in a 36-hole final.\n<\/p>\n
\n After the pair exchanged wins on the first two holes, Mr Bourne went ahead in style.\n<\/p>\n
\n One of the aces came on the third hole, where he hit a six-iron from 175 yards.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Bourne said: “We saw it land but you can’t really see the green.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Walking up, there was a pitch mark about three foot in front of the hole, but also Tom’s ball five feet away from it.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I said ‘Am I going to look a bit daft if I walk up to the green without my putter?’\n<\/p>\n
\n “And we got up to the hole and there it was.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Remarkably, he followed it up with another ace on the 15th, using a five-iron from 187 yards.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “The Club Captain who was refereeing went straight up to the green to watch us tee off.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He saw my ball go in, but he kept calm until Tom had hit his tee shot.\n<\/p>\n
\n “All of a sudden he then appeared with his arms in the air and took a picture of the hole.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I thought he was having me on. I couldn’t believe it.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Bourne, a plumbing and heating engineer, went on to win the final 8&6.\n<\/p>\n
\n James Crampton, England Golf Championships director, said: “The odds of two aces in a round are estimated to be 67 million to 1, so Gavin’s achievements are astonishing – especially considering it was in a Club Championship Final!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gavin Bourne, 47, achieved the incredible feat during the first 18 holes of the Club Championship Match Play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-163669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}