Mike and Joyce Sedler assumed it would be just another fun round of golf with friends when they stepped on the first tee box last Thursday at Latah Creek Golf Course.<\/p>\n
And for six holes it was just that.<\/p>\n
But when Joyce stepped up to the 125-yard, par-3 seventh hole with a 5-hybrid in hand, the day began to take a turn that defies odds.<\/p>\n
Both Joyce and Mike walked away from their rounds celebrating a hole-in-one, with Joyce\u2019s ace coming on the seventh hole and Mike following suit on the 17th.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re retired now, so we are able to get out a few times a week and are able to play together quite a bit as well,\u201d Mike Sedler said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we were playing with some good friends that day and so that made it extra special because they were probably more excited for us than we were,\u201d Joyce Sedler added.<\/p>\n
The pair\u2019s first ace of the day came courtesy of Joyce, who hit a hybrid onto the front of the seventh green, before the ball rolled toward the hole and came to rest in the bottom of the cup for her first-career hole-in-one.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hit it and I saw it was going straight at the pin,\u201d Joyce said.<\/p>\n
But it was Mike that had the best vantage point of the make.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was in my cart and saw it land on the front of the green and start rolling in,\u201d Mike said. \u201cI kind of stood up in the cart and when it hit I got that sensation that it might go in for her and then I heard it hit the pin.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pair said the group then raced up to the green where they found Joyce\u2019s ball in the hole.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just jumped up and down and I think everyone on the holes around us heard the screaming, so that was so much fun,\u201d Joyce said.<\/p>\n
But in her moment of celebration, Joyce was also quick to think of her husband of 47 years joining in on the fun.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so thrilled for Joyce the rest of that round,\u201d Mike said. \u201cAnd then she said \u2018well you never know, maybe you\u2019ll get one too\u2019 and I thought that was so sweet, but I told her \u2018no, this is your day.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
Until 10 holes later when it became their day.<\/p>\n
That moment came on the 160-yard par-3 17th hole, where Mike flushed a five iron to a semiblind green.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hit mine and felt like it was on the green,\u201d Mike said. \u201cBut as I got closer I didn\u2019t see it. I saw there was a sand trap, so I looked there. Then I looked behind the green and then didn\u2019t see it there either.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I ran up and looked in the hole and as everyone else got to the green I just said \u2018oh my gosh, you aren\u2019t going to believe this,\u2019\u201d Mike added.<\/p>\n
Not only were the Sedler\u2019s able to celebrate the achievements with their friends Chris and Ken Strandberg, but also with each other \u2013 a pair of moments they will never forget.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe love each other and love getting to do so many things together, golf being one of those things,\u201d Mike said. \u201cWe have kids and love playing with them too, but being together and having accomplished this incredible feat with each other really makes it the most special memory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike and Joyce Sedler assumed it would be just another fun round of golf with friends when they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-826155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}