Sussex golf club sees FIVE holes-in-one in just one week

That is what Worthing Golf Club tweeted after five of it’s members hit holes-in-one in just one week.

Derek Utton, who brought the blub’s tally of holes-in-One to five in five weeks on Monday July 13 on the second hole on the Vardon course.

But then, on Friday July 17, Philip Albon holed out on the fifth Vardon, followed by cousin Keith Albon in the Captain’s Stableford on Saturday to make it sevenon the ninth Colt hole.

The excitement was not over. Incredibly, Ben Colbourne scored a hole in one on the ninth Lower on Sunday and in the very next group off the tee and in consecutive shots, Paul Atterbury did the same.

Golf operations manager Matt Bolton said: “What are the odds? Well done. Nine in five weeks. There must be something in the water.”

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