A hole-in one is pretty awesome.
It is insane to get two in the same round.
It is crazy to have them all come at once.
Blade Kurilich experienced exactly that. Blade is his real name. The 9-iron was his club of choice to record two aces.
After his round, he jokingly said: “That club is going to be framed when I get my new set.”
Kurilich played Sterling Grove Golf & Country Club, in Surprise, Arizona earlier this week, with his regular team. He made his first hole-in one on the third, while doing a Michael Block PGA Championship impression.
He said, “I dunked the 9-iron straight into the hole in a single motion.” I didn’t realize it until later, but I heard the pin rattling from the tee. “When I got there, I could see where the ball had actually taken a chunk of the cup. I didn’t even see the ball in the hole until I was up there.”
Kurilich returned to the 7th tee, and again, he held his 9-iron. The hole was 172 yards long, but there was a strong wind.
I couldn’t see it either, over the ridge. “I had to double-check the cups for both holes-in-ones,” he said.
The National Hole-in-One Registry states that the odds for an average golfer to make an ace is 12,000-to-1. Kurilich is a +2.4, so the odds of a golfer with his skill level are 5,000 to 1. The odds of a golfer making two holes in one are 67,000,000 to 1.
Kurilich, a former baseball player that only began playing the game about five years before, had never achieved a hole-in one.
The scorecard for Blade Kurilich, who had two holes-in-one in a four-hole stretch at Sterling Grove Golf Club in Surprise, Arizona. (Photo: Blade Kurilich)
He said, “After my second hole in one I promised my friend driving up to green that if this one was also in I would dive into the lake.” “Well, I had to fulfill that promise. So I dove straight in. After the second game, my game was completely ruined.
Kurilich was a finance professional in Denver, but recently moved with his fiancée to Scottsdale to pursue his dream of playing professional golf.
