Amazing Coincidence

photo credit: nsaplayer     The odds of  four  pros getting a hole-in- one on the same hole, on the same day are 8.7 million to one.  

In the fifty four U.S. Open Championships held prior to 1989, only seventeen holes-in-one had been registered.    At the  1989 U.S. Open Championship  at Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York, a new record  was about to be established.  

In just over 90 minutes four  aces were made on the 160-yard sixth hole.    USGA officials cut the hole in a trough.   Nearly every shot that hit  behind the hole  funneled into the trough and towards the  cup.   Doug Weaver,  playing in his first Open, was the first to make an ace.   He was then followed by Mark Wiebe, Jerry Pate and lastly, Nick Price.