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What's Better Than a Hole in One? How About Another, the Next Day?

Urbandale retiree achieves a rare feat – twice.

Golf Digest says a hole-in-one is a rare feat for an average golfer and most will never achieve it in their careers.

Alden Kain is not average, times two.

The Urbandale retiree hit his first hole-in-one – the first in his life – on Aug. 12 at Beaver Creek Golf Course. He repeated the feat again the next day while playing on the Terrace Hills course in Altoona, the Des Moines Register reports.

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The plucky 71-year-old told the newspaper that he figured he might get lucky some day and get a hole-in-one, “but I figured my time was running out here pretty quick.”

Both shots were confirmed by golf course management and Kain was told to expect an award in the near future.

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Consider the odds: Citing Golf Digest and the National Hole In One Association, the web site golflink.com estimates that a tee shot hit by an amateur golfer on a par-3 goes into the hole one out of every 12,750 times. With such astronomical odds, it's even more amazing to read tales of players with two holes-in-one in a round or short period of time. On a course that features four par-3s, a player would make two holes-in-one in a round 1 out of 162,562,500 times, according to Golf Digest.



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