By Nick Creely
A hole-in-one is extraordinarily unique in the world of golf, and so many golfers go through life without this feat, despite chasing it and dreaming of the day.
But what about two hole-in-ones, just a month apart from each other, and at the same course?
Well, that’s the story of 70-year-old golfer Pru Strutt, who recently achieved the freakish accomplishment at Spring Park Golf Course in Keysborough, much to the amazement of the staff and golfers present.
Out of the 40 times that the magic hole-in-one has been achieved at the course, Pru is the only to do it twice.
Her first came on Thursday 18 October on the 7th Hole, Par 3 with a distance of 100 metres. To prove this was no fluke, Pru then replicated her magic on Sunday 11 November, scoring the perfect shot on the 5th Hole, Par 3 with a distance of 150 metres.
She told the Journal that she was stunned to achieve the perfect shot just once, and is still coming to terms with doing it only a month later.
“You think that it’s a once in a lifetime, and then I did it again on a different hole,” she said.
“The first time, you think ‘oh, well that’s it’, and the second time, you almost don’t believe it.”
Pru explained the second shot was particularly tricky, and at first, had no clue of what she had achieved.
“It’s up hill, so you can’t actually see the flag from the bottom of the tee,” she said.
“Walking up there, my husband said, ‘that’s going to be really close to the hole’, and when we got there, we were saying, ‘I can’t see it, I can’t see it’.
“We couldn’t see the ball on the green, and there were a couple of young blokes standing there on the adjacent tee, and they were watching us. We were looking around, and one of the guys said, ‘have a look in the hole’, and there it was.”
Pru – who played golf for about 12 years before giving it up for 16 years due to illness is grateful she came back to the game two years ago, and said she was the talk of the course afterwards.
“When we went into the pro shop afterwards, they had adventure golf kids playing down there, and they had three parties,” she said.
“I went to walk through, and everyone is just congratulating me, so the young blokes who went in, must have told them.”
