Every golfer dreams about it, yet few actually achieve the elusive hole-in-one.
But Annalise Stolzenberg now has two aces under her belt. And she is just nine years old.
Even more remarkable is that the Langley golfer did so on the exact same hole both times at the Langley Golf Centre.
The first time happened on June 21, 2014. And for that occasion, Stolzenberg used an eight-iron to ace the 115-yard hole.
And Stolzenberg did it again last week (Aug. 11), remarkably hitting another hole-in-one on that exact same hole.
This time it was her pitching wedge which delivered the decisive blow.
Stolzenberg did so last week (Aug. 11) while competing on the Junior Linkster Tour.
While she hit the ball well and knew it would be close to the pin, she didn’t actually see the ball drop in the hole. All she heard was the marshall yelling that whoever shot the ball had hit a hole-in-one.
“I was pretty amazed (to do it again),” she admitted.
Golf Digest and the National Hole in One Association estimate that the tee shot hit by an amateur golfer on a par-3 goes into the hole one out of about every 12,750 times.
So what is Stolzenberg’s secret?
Cash incentive, apparently.
Prior to her round last week, her mom Elizabeth had offered her daughter $100 if she could bag a hole-in-one.
“I was pretty happy about that,” Stolzenberg said about her cash prize, which she used on some new golf apparel.
The soon-to-be Grade 4 student at Belmont Elementary has been golfing since she was five. She plays out of the Newlands Golf Course and coach Evelyn Westover.
