81-Y.O. Makes Four Aces On Four Courses In 33 Days
/Gerry Dulac introduces us to Dom DeBonis, 81-year-old resident of The Villages and former Duquesne college golfer during the Eisenhower Administration, who this month made four aces in 33 days at four courses.
And then DeBonis posted a photo on Facebook of himself with some of his witnesses/golfing buddies, making it his profile pic.
Dulac writes:
So when he had the opportunity to go to Myrtle Beach with 11 friends on a golfing trip to the Grand Strand, he couldn't resist. On Oct. 6, Mr. DeBonis carded an ace at Farmstead Golf Club in Calabash, N.C. He used a 9-iron from 112 yards out on the seventh hole.
The next day, he added a second hole-in-one at the Thistle Golf Club in Sunset Beach, N.C., using a 7-iron at the 129-yard sixth hole.
And the topper came on Oct. 8 at Blackmoor Golf Club, where Mr. DeBonis added his third ace in three days with an 8-iron at the 118-yard fourth hole.
Best of all, he's playing from the proper set of tees. Or Teeing It Forward. (Remember that initiative? It's hard to keep up with all of them.)
**Jason Sobel called the man and for the skeptics out there (understandable), it sure sounds like the man had witnesses and bar tabs to prove it.
“Oh, I would imagine drinks came close to $500,” estimates DeBonis, still laughing at his fortune. “They took it easy on me after the first few.”
Mercer Langley, registrar for the National Hole in One Registry, says the odds of a 14-handicap making an ace are around 12,000-to-1, but there’s really no way of quantifying three in three days. That didn’t stop Joe Nowak, a former engineer and one of DeBonis’ golfing buddies, from trying. He maintains that the number would be 12,000 to the ninth power, which equals 1.9 trillion-to-one odds
