It could be the best round of golf in history. To make three holes-in-one in an 18-hole round is an almost unbelievable feat. That is what an American from Virginia has done.
Patrick Wills, 59, signed for 57 strokes, 14 under par, which included three holes-in-one in a round of a 6,021-yard amateur tournament at Laurel Hill Golf Club in Lorton, Va.
Two of the three holes-in-one of this former Marine’s incredible round took place on par fours.
Wills, who is a +4 handicap, was playing the round with his two sons and an Air Force major.
After one of his sons told him that his tee shot on the 289-yard, par-4, 289-yard 7th sank the hole, “my heart jumped a little in disbelief,” Wills said.
When he holed the 334-yard, par-4 10th from the tee, Wills felt “surprised, stymied, incredulous.”
And when on the par-3, 187-yard 14th, his five-iron shot ended up directly in the hole he felt like this: “It’s one of those surreal experiences, everything was moving in slow motion and I was trying to take it all in”.
“It was a shock to me,” said Laurel Hill PGA director Gen Orrico, who verified the card.
“Patrick has been coming here for a long time; he is an honorable and respected man,” Orrico said.
In the 47 years he has been playing golf, Wills had shot 22 holes-in-one before his incredible round of three.
The star told Yahoo Sports that he understands people’s skepticism.
“People can believe what they want to believe – I fought for that freedom,” Wills said. “But I know what I did in the round, my fellow players know it and so do the participants in the tournament.”
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