Golfer expected to score hole-in-one again today

Posted: 1:00 AM CDT Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009

SYDNEY, N.S. -- In 20-plus years of playing golf, Adam Sams had never had a hole-in-one.

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SYDNEY, N.S. -- In 20-plus years of playing golf, Adam Sams had never had a hole-in-one.

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SYDNEY, N.S. — In 20-plus years of playing golf, Adam Sams had never had a hole-in-one.

But he finally recorded one last Friday at his home course of Highlands Links in Cape Breton. He got another on Sunday, and another on Tuesday.

That’s three aces in five rounds over a span of five days for the 34-year-old from Ingonish, N.S.

“I wait 20-some-odd years to get one and then I get three in five days. It’s still hard to believe,” Sams, who plays to a two handicap, said Wednesday.

“It’s a hole-in-one every second day. Expectations are high for me to get one” Thursday.

According to Allan Zullo’s book Astonishing But True Golf Facts, mathematician Wally Etterbeek said to hit three aces in five rounds, “you would have to hit one shot on a par-3 hole every minute of every hour of every day — for 5,700 years.” That puts the odds at 2,995,920,000 to 1.

— The Canadian Press