On June 26, 2026, Trevor Fackrell stepped up to the par-three 14th at Galt Country Club in Cambridge, Ontario, shaped a perfect 8-iron, and watched the ball land six feet short, take one small hop, and disappear into the hole. Hole-in-one. Pandemonium.
His playing partner Shawn Brown then stepped up to the same tee. And did the exact same thing. Two holes in one, same hole, same day — one of the most statistically absurd feats in golf history.
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The odds of two golfers in the same group acing the same hole on the same day: 17 million to one, per the National Hole-in-One Registry. You have a better shot at being struck by lightning while simultaneously winning the lottery.
What Actually Happened
Fackrell went first. He is no amateur — he’s a left-handed PGA of Canada professional, former head pro at Burlington Golf and Country Club, and past president of the PGA of Ontario. He described the shot: “It was a perfect 8-iron for me, and I just stood up, and hit it pure and it landed about six feet short of the hole, took one little hop and just jumped into the hole.”
Then Brown approached the tee. Brown has about five career aces to his name — he knows what they feel like. But standing there, with his buddy’s ball sitting at the bottom of the cup, knowing the hole had just been conquered moments earlier? He stepped up and knocked it in anyway.
The other two players in the foursome watched this unfold and will likely spend the rest of their golf lives telling people they were there.
The Odds in Perspective
A single hole-in-one for an average amateur golfer runs about 12,500 to 1. For a PGA professional, closer to 3,000 to 1. String two together in the same group on the same hole? Seventeen million to one.
If you played that specific par three every single day starting right now, you’d need several lifetimes before you’d expect this to happen naturally. Fackrell and Brown pulled it off on a mild, overcast Thursday morning in Ontario, on a hole they’ve both played dozens of times before.
Between them, the two men now have eleven combined career holes-in-one. Which is somehow the least remarkable part of this story.
The 19th Hole Was Expensive
Golf tradition dictates that whoever makes a hole-in-one buys the round. What happens when two people ace it back-to-back in the same group is apparently not covered in the rule book. We assume they split it. We also assume nobody complained.
Some rounds of golf are just worth the bar tab.
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