Man hits two holes-in-one less than a week apart on High Point Country Club golf course

An 84-year-old man knocked down a hole-in-one at the High Point Country Club in Naples but did it again just three days later.

The odds of an average golfer hitting a single hole-in-one are 12,500 to one, but this man beat those odds twice.

Whenever 84-year-old Herb Pike swings his club, the goal is getting as close to the flag as possible.

“It gets me out of the house every day instead of sitting around growing old,” Pike said.

“You got to be lucky. Not a lot of skill involved,” Pike said.

Pike smacked a hole-in-one three days apart on the same par three hole at the High Point Country Club course. His first time overcoming the 12,500 to one odds came on Thursday, on the seventh hole.

“I kind of topped it a little bit and it spent half of its journey on the ground rolled up. I thought it went off the back of the green. One of the guys said no no it went in the hole. So we walked up and it was in the hole,” Pike said.

Then, Pike gave an encore performance on the same seventh hole on Saturday.

“That was a real pretty shot. Thing of beauty. I mean it just went up bounced on the green and rolled up and went in the hole,” Pike said. “It’s kind of crazy. You just don’t expect that kind of a thing to happen.”

Many golfers dream of hitting a hole-in-one in their lifetime. Pike casually lived out a golfers dream twice within the same week.

But Pike has a remarkably uncanny ability to beat these odds. Pike has hit six holes-in-one in his life. And Pike has some advice to those searching for their first.

“Keep trying,” Pike said. “Go out there and enjoy it and If you get lucky one falls in. It’s simple as that.”

When WINK News was on the course with Pike, he was getting called ‘Ace’ a lot and heroic greetings from many people around.