'Lucky' Golf club in NZ sees four 'holes-in-one' in just three weeks

A golf club located in Timaru, New Zealand has had an extraordinary piece of luck as it enjoyed four holes-in-one in just three weeks.

The latest ace at Gleniti Golf Club came from Garry Stewart's swing on the par-three second on Saturday, with the 25-handicapper, who has been playing golf since 1977 and had never hit an ace, firing a hole-in-one doing as events conspired in his favour.

Stewart said that he landed the ball on the green and the way the greens are playing it was shooting through the back, adding that then it clipped another guy's ball, glanced off it and went straight in, insisting that he couldn't believe it, Stuff.co.nz reported.

Friend Ray Cox, a 19-handicapper, played the perfect shot on the seventh hole on Wednesday, using a four-iron into the wind to watch it roll into the cup. He reportedly had a trophy made up to memorialise the ball and Stewart said that he would be getting the exact same thing.

Cox's shout at the bar came just four days after Timaru's Steve Geddes potted his first hole-in-one at the 18th hole in a stableford round on March 14, while a week earlier Gleniti golfer Paul Goddard hit his fourth ace, all with a ball carrying the number two, on the seventh.

Stewart said the course's condition meant it was playing long, but it was still incredible that there had been four aces in three weeks. He said that they say these things come in threes or fours, but added that one wouldn't hear about it.