<h2>Pennsylvania Man Makes Two Holes in One in Single Round on Myrtle Beach Golf Trip!</h2>
<p>There is an old saying that timing is everything in life and at least one Myrtle Beach golfer isn&#8217;t likely to argue.</p>
<p>At 7:30 a.m. on March 19, <strong>John Ponter</strong> and the three friends he had traveled to Myrtle Beach with called <a title="Oyster Bay Golf Course" href="https://www.onthegreenmagazine.com/myrtle-beach-golf-courses/oyster-bay-golf-course/">Oyster Bay</a>, one of the area&#8217;s most popular courses, in search of an unlikely tee time.</p>
<p>&#8220;We had a cancellation in the morning and they called like five minutes later and got an 8:20 tee time,&#8221; said Brian Altena, Oyster Bay&#8217;s first assistant.</p>
<p>But fate was just beginning to smile on Ponter.</p>
<p>Eighteen holes later, Ponter, who plays a &#8220;couple times a year,&#8221; had completed one of golf&#8217;s rarest feats – making two holes in one in a single round.</p>
<p>How rare was Ponter&#8217;s accomplishment? The odds are 67 million to 1, according to one source.</p>
<p>&#8220;My reaction was disbelief,&#8221; said Ponter, who had never seen an ace, much less recorded his own, heading into the round.</p>
<p>The Baden, Pa., native started on the 10th hole and recorded his first hole-in-one playing from the white tees on the 15th hole (his sixth of the day).</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an island green and we calculated it at 109 yards to the pin,&#8221; Ponter said. &#8220;I hadn&#8217;t been hitting it well all week, so I hit a nine iron because the wind was picking up and I didn&#8217;t want to leave it in the water.&#8221;</p>
<p>The shot bounced a couple times and rolled in the cup in plain view of the entire group, setting off the first round of euphoria.</p>
<p>After the required jokes about doing it again, Ponter stepped onto the sixth tee box (his 15th hole) and did the nearly impossible.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was an uphill shot but you could see the bottom of the pin,&#8221; said Jerry Heinz, one of Ponter&#8217;s playing partners. &#8220;He hit the ball and it was heading right for the pin but when it went in none of us could believe it.&#8221;</p>
<p>The pair of aces fell in the middle of a week-long trip to Myrtle Beach that included nine rounds of golf, more swings than Ponter cares to recount, and a story he will never tire of retelling.</p>
<p>The 53-year-old not surprisingly recorded his best round at Oyster Bay &#8211; an 89 that included those two aces.</p>
<p>According to Heinz, Ponter&#8217;s game is best not evaluated by score alone.</p>
<p>&#8220;He doesn&#8217;t play a lot of golf but he is really a great athlete,&#8221; Heinz said. &#8220;He could cut his handicap in half (if he played more).&#8221;</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s irrelevant to Ponter, who celebrated by playing an additional 18 holes that afternoon at Thistle, having a couple drinks with his buddies, and playing 36 more the following day.</p>

