Port Fairy golfers achieve their first hole-in-ones

Colin Lynch, at 88 years young, scored his first hole-in-one after playing the sport for more than 30 years.

He achieved the milestone on the eighth hole just half an hour after fellow member Graeme Carbury shot a hole-in-one on the same hole.

They were playing in the Wednesday competition and it was the first time either player had reached the milestone.

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Lynch said he was battling a crook back which had impacted his strokes.

So he was thrilled to see his ball roll in.

"The chaps who were with me were quite excited," he said.

"I think they were more excited than I was."

He said he tried to keep the ball straight towards the hole and it landed just short of the green.

"Then it rolled up the lip towards the pin onto the green and straight in the hole," he said.

Lynch felt he benefitted from good fortune.

"Unless you're a professional, I think most hole-in-ones are a fluke," he said.

Graeme Carbury, who has been enjoyed the sport for 25 years, couldn't believe it.

He said he'd never been at a course when someone had achieved a hole-in-one.

"I had a bit of grin," he said.

"I thought perhaps my eyes might be playing tricks on me.

"I waited until it was confirmed by the others first."

The Port Fairy resident said it was an ideal day for golf.

"It's a relatively short par three and we had the perfect day to do it with almost no wind," he said.

"Normally we can have very strong winds in that area, the eighth hole.

"You hit from the top of a sand dune down to a green much lower."

The good-humoured Carbury said he marked his ball straight away and put it in his bag.

"I put it away, I would have lost it on another hole the way I was playing yesterday," he said with a laugh.

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