Two holes-in-one - but a 9 at the fifth

Rob Tyson, 67, has been playing the game for more than 30 years and thought he might never achieve the "Holy Grail" of golf.

But after he sunk his first on the fourth hole of his local club he repeated the feat just minutes later on the seventh - beating odds four times greater than winning the National Lottery.

The retired father-of-two from Elgin said: "It was a miracle, there's no other way to describe it. I've been playing golf for 35 years and have never had a hole-in-one.

"So you can understand my amazement when I got my first and then three holes later I get another one."

Mr Tyson, a retired college lecturer, plays golf twice a week at the Hardhillock course.

He plays off a handicap of 15 and last year managed to win the local leg of a national Rotary Club tournament.

He was competing again in the Rotary Club tournament on Thursday when he scored a hole-in-one on the par three fourth hole, a shot of 159 yards.

He then stunned everyone, including himself, when he managed to do it again at the par three 169 yard-long seventh

Mr Tyson said: "It was a great feeling when I saw my drive at the fourth bounce on the left of the green, trundle round the slope and pop into the hole."

Using his six iron, he got his next just three holes later.

He added: "I saw the ball bounce twice and remember saying to my playing partner Graham Milne that it could be pretty close. When we walked up towards the green I couldn't see my ball. I checked the bunker and it wasn't there and when I walked up to the hole there it was.

"When I got back into the clubhouse it did cost me a couple of quid but it was just a great day all round."

Sadly, Mr Tyson failed to qualify for the national competition.

He added: "On the fifth hole I lost my ball and ran up a nine. Friends have been singing my praises ever since - but I won't let it go to my head."

Club secretary Gary Abel said: "With the excitement of two holes-in-one in one round, his game went a bit off, which is understable."