What’s amazing to me is there is no mention of Phil Mickelson in these stories about Tiger Woods!These same sportswriters who said two weeks ago that “Phil Buried Tiger” in Boston and that it was a new day in gold and that Phil’s win is the ‘best thing that happened to golf all year.’ When Phil wins they always bring up Tiger, like he was the only person in the tournament, but when Tiger wins, there is never any mention of Phil. Double standard.??? I think so… what do you think?

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Two swings, two aces — two balls in the same cup.

Moments after Thomas Brady scored a hole-in-one, Dennis Gerhart stepped to the tee and matched it at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe Township.
“I’ve never heard of that happening anywhere in the world,” Jim Woods, director of golf at the club, said Thursday, a day after the dual aces were recorded on the club’s Banks Course. “Two balls on the same hole in the same group is pretty impressive.”

Neither Brady nor Gerhart had ever made a hole-in-one before. The odds of a golfer scoring an ace are about 5,000-to-1. But the odds of two players in a foursome doing it are 17 million to 1, according to a Golf Digest article in 2000.

“To have two happen like that, back to back, is just unbelievable,” Brady said Thursday.

Brady, 41, of Lopatcong, used a 6-iron on the 179-yard seventh hole, a downhill par-3. It hit the green and rolled about 30 feet into the hole.

“Everybody was just high-fiving each other,” Gerhart said.

Gerhart, 57, an electrical contractor from Point Pleasant, then made his ace with a 5-iron after hitting to about 20 feet. “It landed on the green and started trickling toward the pin. I thought it was going to stop short, but it kept rolling,” he said.

“His ball hit in almost the same spot on the left side of the green and rolled to the hole,” Brady said.

The group could not be sure the ball wasn’t behind the pin until they drove up to the hole, he said.

“It was just utterly incredible,” Gerhart said. “I’m just ecstatic when I stick the green and get a shot at par.”

The U.S. Golf Association and the World Golf Hall of Fame had no immediate information on the frequency of back-to-back aces.

Gerhart described himself as a “weekend hacker” who plays 15 times a year. The ace contributed to a personal best score of 84. Brady, a skilled player with a 9.5 handicap, had a 79 on the par-71 layout, but even the pros find holes-in-one to be elusive.

In June, Bruce Vaughn, a player on the Champions Tour, had two aces in two days, each on different holes at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, N.Y.

Yusaku Miyazato recorded two holes-in-one during the same round at the Reno-Tahoe Open in 2006 in Nevada, which is believed to be only the second time that feat was ever done on the PGA Tour.

Gerhart and Brady said they would save the scorecard and the balls. The foursome also included Thomas White, of Brick Township, and James Sydlo, of Edison.

The back-to-back aces were first reported in The Star-Ledger of Newark.

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ATLANTA (AP) - Zach Johnson and Sergia Garcia were finishing out the ninth hole at East Lake when someone else’s ball came skidding through the green.

Guess who was too strong for his own good? Tiger Woods.
On his way to a dominating eight-stroke win in the Tour Championship, Woods also violated one of golf’s basic no-no’s Sunday by hitting into the group ahead of him.

It happened at the par-5 ninth to the penultimate twosome. Garcia needed extra time after knocking his second shot into the adjacent first fairway. Johnson also took three shots to reach the green on the 600-yard hole.

Coming up right behind them was Woods, whose booming drive still left him 286 yards from the flag. He went ahead and played his second shot with a 5-wood, aiming for a bunker. Instead, he wound up reaching the green that Garcia and Johnson were still playing.

“Obviously, he didn’t think he’d be able to get it there,” said Garcia, who salvaged a par. “Somehow he did. It was no big deal.”

It appeared to affect Johnson, who three-putted from 29 feet for a bogey at a hole that provided plenty of birdies. But he dismissed the breakdown in etiquette.

“I had no idea whose ball it was,” said Johnson, who tied for second with Mark Calcavecchia. “I figured it was Tiger’s. But it didn’t get to me. I just lost my focus a little bit.”

Woods apologized to Garcia and Johnson.

“I didn’t think I could hit it that far,” the winner said.

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