Two N.J. Golfers Get Back-To-Back Aces

Sep 21 2007 in Events and Outings by thestarter

AP reports Two N.J. Golfers Get Back-To-Back Aces:

The men were still calming themselves after witnessing a member of the foursome, Thomas Brady, score a hole-in-one, when Dennis Gerhart stepped to the tee. One stroke later, the celebration began anew. Gerhart had also holed out.

“I've never heard of that happening anywhere in the world,” Jim Woods, director of golf at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe Township, said Thursday, a day after the dual aces were recorded on the club's Banks Course. “Two balls on the same hole in the same group is pretty impressive.”

Holes-in-one are rare. Neither Brady nor Gerhart had ever made one before. The odds of a golfer scoring an ace: 5,000-to-1. But the odds of two players in a foursome performing such a feat are 17 million to 1, according to a Golf Digest article in 2000.

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