The world’s most exclusive golfing club has a new member.
Alongside greats such as 2023 Open winner Brian Harman, English professional golfer Dale Whitnell and — depending on your faith in North Korean propaganda — former North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, we must now add Gavin Bourne, from Droitwich.
On Sunday the heating engineer scored two holes in one in a single round.
It is an achievement that the overwhelming majority of professionals will never experience, and with odds that comfortably exceed that of winning the lottery. Or as Bourne, 47, put it on realising that he didn’t need his putter for the second time in one day, “I was like, ‘No way. You’re having me on here’.”
Bourne was playing a 36-hole final for his club championship match at Droitwich Golf Club in Worcestershire. He hit a perfect shot on the third hole, and then another on the 15th, crowning him champion of his club.
