Brian Harman was left wondering why there was not the prize of a new car, a cash reward or possibly even the presentation of a bottle of bubbly after not one but two holes-in-one on the final day of the Barclays Championship.
The pint-size 28-year old Savannah, Georgia born player holed out for an ace at the par three, third hole on the Plainfield Country Club course and then to the amazement of not only the 2014 John Deere Classic winner Harman then aced the par three 14th hole.
Harman used a 7-iron at the third and a 4-iron on 14 to record also the Tour’s 39th and 4oth ace on the 2014/15 wraparound schedule.
It was the first time in 122 PGA Tour events Harman has had a hole-in-one and like the No. 273 bus he secures a second ace.
American Brian Harman becomes only the third player on the PGA Tour to have two aces in the same round. (Photo – www.pgatour.com)
“I would trade both of them to be in contention,” he joked.
“It was all pretty wild as after the first one, I looked at my caddy, I said: ‘That’s my first one out here’.
“I am still in a bit of a shock about it all. It’s pretty crazy to play a hundred-some-odd tournaments and never have one, but to have two in the same tournament is pretty awesome.”
It’s believed the odds of any golfer recording two aces in the same round of golf is 67 million to one.
“I’ve had about six or seven hole-in-one’s messing around but no, no prizes,” he said.
“How is it there’s not a car? There was half a million dollars at Phoenix this year for an ace on the 16th.”
No doubt, if the southpaw golfer had have achieved the feat on the European Tour officials and/or sponsors would have been right on the ball to arrange a large bottle of bubbly to present to Harman.
Nonetheless, Harman joined a select group now of just three PGA Tour players to have two aces in the same around after American amateur Bill Wheldon first achieved the feat on day one in the 1955 Insurance City Open (Now the Traveler’s Championship) and with Japan’s Yusaku Miyazato grabbing two hole-in-one’s on day two of the 2006 Barracuda Championship in Reno, Nevada.
