By Richard Owen

Golfers dream of scoring a hole in one, but imagine Amie Flanagan’s elation when she scored, not one but, two Aces during an Apex Charity Day event on July 30 at the Maleny Golf Club in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast Hinterland.

Having holed out on the Par 3 17th – a green most players struggle to even hold – Amie stepped onto the Tee of the even more difficult Par 3 1st hole just a few minutes later still buzzing and brimming with confidence.

“I’d jokingly said to the boys on my team, ‘Stuff it I’m gonna (sic) get another one’ as we were driving down to the 1st,” she chuckled. “I didn’t actually think it was going to happen, and we couldn’t believe it when my ball landed just in-front of the pin and rolled straight into the hole!”

The group’s screams of astonishment and jubilation could be heard from the clubhouse when what’s been estimated as a 67 million-to-one shot found the cup!

Their 4-ball Ambrose team, competing in the shotgun start event as “The Disruptive Ducks”, shot 8 under off the stick on the day – enough to earn bragging rights for second place.

Amie, 35, lives at Maroochy River on the Sunshine Coast and plays off a handicap of 38 after taking up the game of golf about two years ago during the pandemic.

However, she now has three Aces to her name, having already scored a hole-in-one in May this year.

Maleny Golf Club General Manager Stephen Porter said Amie’s golfing feat would go down in the club’s annals as a feat unlikely to be ever be repeated.

“Not too long ago we had a husband and wife both score Aces during the same round, so you never know,” he quipped.

Mr Porter said Maleny was popular as a Charity Golf Day venue for service clubs like Apex which held the event to raise funds to support local athlete Kael Thompson in her pursuit to represent Australia at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.

Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTyGyuj5uGs to view camera footage of when Amie scored here second Ace on the 1st hole.

For more information about Maleny Golf Club, the course and membership options visit the website: www.golfmaleny.com