Frank Bensel Jr. did not make the minimize at this week’s U.S. Senior Open, however he can have a historic takeaway from the match.
Throughout the second spherical of play at Newport Nation Membership in Newport, Rhode Island, the 56-year-old Bensel Jr. carded back-to-back aces.
Sure, that is proper — consecutive holes-in-one.
Bensel’s first ace got here on the 184-yard par-3 fourth gap. He adopted that up with one other on the 203-yard par-3 fifth gap.
Frank Bensel Jr. made BACK-TO-BACK holes-in-one this morning on the US Senior Open. And but one way or the other, he is even on the day! pic.twitter.com/rj0FsLLv9j
— Ryan Ballengee (@RyanBallengee) June 28, 2024
The percentages of creating a hole-in-one, in accordance with the Nationwide Gap-in-One registry, is 12,500-to-1. Two in the identical spherical, as Brian Harman achieved on the PGA Tour in 2015? 67 million to 1.
Bensel Jr. completed his second spherical with eight bogeys together with these two aces. Over the 2 rounds, he shot 9-over par.
“The primary one was nice,” stated Bensel Jr., who added these had been his thirteenth and 14th profession holes-in-one between competitors and leisure play. “I used to be kidding round, like now let’s go for an additional one, and it occurred to go in. All people simply could not imagine it.”
When Bensel Jr. is not hitting aces he is a golf coach at Century Nation Membership in Buy, New York. He has participated in six PGA Tour occasions in his profession, together with three PGA Championships and the 2007 U.S. Open.