{"id":604979,"date":"2026-05-26T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604979\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:35:09","slug":"highland-golfer-beats-huge-odds-to-score-two-holes-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604979\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland golfer beats huge odds to score two holes in one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Highland golfer has overcome odds of one in 67 million to hit two holes in one in the same round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Douglas Spencer &#8211; who had never had a hole-in-one before &#8211; was competing for the Roddy Macleod Trophy at Boat of Garten Golf Club on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After what the 60-year-old described as a &#8220;not very good&#8221; start, he then got his first hole-in-one at the ninth hole, before repeating the feat at the 16th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spencer, who came second overall at the tournament, said he would rather have won the trophy, but was still delighted to beat such huge odds on his home course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Highland golfer has overcome odds of one in 67 million to hit two holes in one in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-604979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604979","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=604979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}