Golfer hits two holes-in-one, in half a round

The remarkable golfing double - four times more unlikely than winning the Lotto jackpot - was achieved by Adam Smith, a seven-handicap golfer, while playing in the winter league at Stonehaven Golf Club on Saturday.

He aced the 163-yard 18th hole - the starting hole on the course during the winter season - and then recorded his second hole in one at the 132-yard 7th.

However, the lucky golfer was unable to complete the round of his life - he had to walk off the course after playing only nine holes as he had a prior appointment to attend.

Mr Smith, 47, a technician with Aberdeenshire Council, revealed that he had been considering giving his Saturday round a miss after his regular playing partner, Ian Harrison, had to call off because of a sore ankle.

He said: "I did think about whether I would go along - but I'm really glad I did."

He set off instead with two senior members of the club, Keith Taylor, a retired teacher, and Tom Hyder, the former chief executive of Kincardine and Deeside District Council

Mr Smith said: "When I hit the first shot of the day, a four iron at the 18th, I didn't think the ball was in the hole as I could still see it. It must have been resting against the pin before it fell in, as half-way down the fairway I couldn't see it any more.

"I took my putter on to the green just in case, but it was in the hole and I was delighted to have made my second ace in 15 years. My first was at the same 18th hole."

Describing his remarkable second hole-in-one at the 7th, he added: "I played a lovely five iron, although it can be deceiving as it is a raised green and you can't see the hole.

"One of my playing partners played a similar shot and when we got up there one ball was lying short and there was no ball to be seen on the green.

"I assumed the ball short of the green was mine, so my playing partner Keith Taylor walked up to the hole and punched his fist in the air. When Keith said it was my ball in the hole I just couldn't believe it."

Mr Smith, who has been playing golf for 25 years, has been a member at Stonehaven - a par-66 course - since 1994.

Mr Hyder said: "When Adam hit his first shot at the 18th and it hit the green, I told Adam, 'I think you're in' and it was.

"The seventh is a blind hole but you could tell that Adam had hit a lovely shot … But we just couldn't believe it when we went up and discovered it was in the hole as well. We had a little dance about the green."Adam had said at the start of the round that he was going in after the eighth. So he walked off the course after his second ace. He wasn't even holing out because he was only going to play nine holes and he wasn't recording his score."

Mr Hyder added: "The odds of doing what Adam did are absolutely incredible. But they were just super golf shots."