Double hole-in-one in English Boys at Silloth
It is often said that good things come in pairs and Blairgowrie’s Cormac Sharpe won’t argue with that after he holed in one on successive days in the English Boys Championship (Carris) at Silloth on Solway.
Not content with achieving the feat at the ninth in the second round on Wednesday, the 18-year-old did it again at the 16th yesterday – his fifth ace in just two years.
The eagle helped him to a third-round 67 and left himself 11 shots behind 54-hole leader Niall Shiels Donegan (Mill Valley).
And if that wasn’t amazing enough, Sharpe also had a highly prophetic exchange with an England Golf photographer just minutes before his second hole in one.
“As we were going down 15 the England Golf photographer, who photographed me on Wednesday, went past me in a buggy and shouted: ‘No holes in one today then?’
“I was going to shout back that I still had 16 left but he whizzed past so fast.”
The 200-yarder is not easiest par three in the world but Sharpe remarkably made light of that.
He added: “It was straight into the wind and I was thinking short right was the place to be. I thought if I hit six iron then at least I couldn’t go long.
“Anyway I absolutely flushed it and it landed on the green. When the ball disappeared the Italian guy I was playing with and his caddy went mental.”
The hero of the hour’s mum Connie was there to see her son pull off this rarest of golfing feats.
“Mum was by the green for both of them and she walked up to me on 16 and was just laughing,” added Sharpe.
A day earlier, while he was fighting to make the cut, the Scottish junior got the perfect boost at the 142-yard ninth. The hole before he had missed a three footer for birdie but, after one swing of his 50 degree wedge, that was all forgotten.
“When I hit it I thought it was going left. The wind was coming right across us but the ball never moved.”