Scottish Golfers HALVE Par Three with Consecutive Holes In One

When you're fortunate enough to achieve the milestone of making a hole-in-one you expect that to be a wholly singular and personal moment. And in a matchplay situation, you would expect your opponent to concede and move onto the next hole.

However, on Tuesday on a sunny evening on Scotland, that's what happened to amateur golfer Mark Mcleod at Lanark Golf Club, where he holed his tee shot from 149 yards on the tenth hole in a match. Astonishingly, just a few moments, later his competitor had a hole in one of his own to HALVE the par three in ones. 

To consider just how unlikely was was, we can only delve into the statistics. According to the National Hole in One Association, the average player faces odds of 12,500/1 on making an ace on any given par three, with the chance of making another about one in 156 million. As for two different players having successive hole in ones, that's statistically unfathomabale. While it's not something we can verify as being genuine, we're going to be believers and hope it's true.

Played a match play comp tonyt @LanarkGolfClub made a holein1 at the 10th hole and my competitor also made one to half #holein1#halfedin1s pic.twitter.com/sgwxRzhJ3i

— Mark Mcleod (@C13OUD) June 20, 2017

Recent U.S. Open runner-up Brian Harman had two hole-in-ones during the final round of the Barclays on the PGA Tour in 2015, while a golfer from Shrewsbury made two in-a-row back in 2010. There have been other similar stories involving normal club players across the world, which underlines just how crazy this game can be.

Golf is a game that draws us back in with the occasional instance of magic. But at Lanark the other night, there was a display of pure sorcery between two guys expecting a quiet encounter.  It's one that they will never forget. The only question remains is who had to pay for the drinks.