Many golfers try their entire lives to get a hole-in-one and many never succeed. However, 81-year-old Eddie Manderville, a fixture at the Theodore Wirth Golf course, now has 10 in his 58 years of playing golf.
Manderville scored two of those holes-in-one in one round of golf last Friday. In fact, he accomplished the feat on back-to-back holes.
Eyewitnesses saw Manderville hit the two holes-in-one at the Par 3 course on holes 7 and 8. The holes measured 141 and 165 yards respectively.
"I kinda said they usually come in threes, and I'll be a son-of-a-gun, I knocked the next one in. Now that amazed me even!"
"Even the best golfers go a lifetime without getting any holes-in-one, so even though Eddie has had 8 of them going into this, it's pretty rare going back to back. It just doesn't happen," said Matt Miskowiec, pro shop attendant at the Theodore Wirth Golf Course. "Everybody knows Eddie around here. He's a legend."
Manderville, who has had two knee replacements, comes to the course to golf almost every day when the weather is good. He also volunteers his time to teach golf lessons to youth and washes balls for the course. Manderville credits the feat to lots and lots of practice.
"I take nothing for granted in golf, but I've put a lot of work into it too, so you get out of it what you put into it," he said.
According to the National Hole in One Registry the odds of hitting two holes-in-one during a golf game are 67 million to one. Because hitting two of them back-to-back is so rare, there aren't even statistics on it.
Carissa Wyant, reporting
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