England’s Dale Whitnell just wrote his name into the history books during the second round of the Investec South African Open, achieving the near-impossible—two hole-in-ones in a single round. Whitnell aced both the 2nd and 12th holes, a feat so rare that even among the game’s greatest, only a handful have ever done it in professional competition.
Scoring a hole-in-one is a career-defining moment for most golfers, but making two in a single round? That’s the stuff of legend. One of the earliest recorded cases came at the 1955 U.S. Open when amateur Bill Whedon aced two par-3s in the same round, a record unmatched in Major championship history. On the professional tours, Japan’s Yusaku Miyazato stunned the golfing world in 2006 at the Reno-Tahoe Open by holing out twice. America’s Brian Harman also managed to join the elite ‘doubles club’ the 2015 Barclays Championship.
Statistically, the odds of a professional golfer making two aces in a single round are around 67 million to one. But as Whitnell has now proven, the impossible can happen. The question is—who will be next to join this ultra-exclusive club?
