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Golfer Hits Three Aces In Three Straight Days In Carolinas

By Cameron La Fontaine

Aug 8, 2014; Louisville, KY, USA; The ball of PGA golfer Lee Westwood lies on the ground near the 18th green after Westwood hit his second shot on the 18th hole during the second round of the 2014 PGA Championship golf tournament at Valhalla Golf Club. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports
Aug 8, 2014; Louisville, KY, USA; The ball of PGA golfer Lee Westwood lies on the ground near the 18th green after Westwood hit his second shot on the 18th hole during the second round of the 2014 PGA Championship golf tournament at Valhalla Golf Club. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports /
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81-year-old Dom Debonis hit three hole-in-ones in three straight days, baffling golfers everywhere.

There’s luck and there’s superstition, but what happened to 81-year-old Dom DeBonis is an absolute mystery. DeBonis hit a hole-in-one on three consecutive days while on a golf trip with friends to the Grand Strand region near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

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On Oct. 6 when he aced the 112-yard 17th at Farmstead Golf Club in Calabash, North Carolina. He followed that up with a hole-in-one on the 129-yard sixth hole at Thistle Golf Club in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, on Oct. 7 and then DeBonis’ on Oct. 8 at Blackmoor Golf Club in South Carolina from 118 yards out.

“I just couldn’t believe it,” DeBonis, a native of Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “The guys were going bananas. They said we got to buy lottery tickets, so we went and bought a bunch of lottery tickets.”

It wasn’t the first time DeBonis had a hole-in-one, as he has had two before this trifeta of luck.

“What happened with me is that for 65 years I’ve been playing golf and I had one hole in one when I lived in New Jersey,” DeBonis, a former college golfer, told the Post-Gazette. “Then about three weeks before I got to Myrtle Beach, I had a hole-in-one at The Villages. I was elated because the first one was so long ago.”

During the 2013-2014 PGA Tour season there were just 19 hole in one’s from over 250 professional golfer that have tour exemption. This is 42 tournaments with a total of 168 rounds of golf played between hundreds of men and only 19 hole-in-ones could be made.

This is an absolutely dream for any golfer. As an 18-year-old who has been golfing since the age of 8 and still nothing to show for it in the hole-in-one department, my jealous for Dom DeBonis is through the roof. That’s why the game of golf is so special. An 81-year-old man can hit three hole-in-ones.

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