Neil Watts done it again! Hole-in-one master hits 12 ace in seven months
British amateur golfer Neil Watts is very much the world's go-to hole-in-one guy at the moment. He's hit 12 aces in the last seven months.
Although the odds of professional golfers hitting a hole-in-one are significantly higher than your average player, they still may go their whole career without achieving that feat.
According to the National Hole-in-One Registry, the odds of a tour player hitting a hole-in-one are 3,000-to-1, while for average players, they are 12,000-to-1.
Watts hit his first-ever ace in June 2021, with a further 11 coming in the next few months. In December, the British golfer aced it during an interview with British broadcaster ITV when he it a hole-in-one while the cameras were rolling.
Watts remembers being given a box of balls specifically by the Tracy Park pro shop the golf club, where he's achieved his feat for the interview.
He hit the first ten balls before the interview and then asked to shoot the remaining balls for more footage.
"And I did it on the I think it was on the 15th golf ball. I got the hole-in-one," Watts said. "But I didn't think he'd set up the camera, to be honest.
"Because I turned round to him and I said: 'That'll be close because that was like the one I had before on the hole.'
"And when we got up there, the cameramen went to the hole; he said: 'There is one in the hole,' and we all said: 'Don't be silly.' And he said: 'No, I'm not joking, there's a ball in the hole.' And it was one of the ones they gave us from the pro shop.
"It was brilliant. And lucky enough, he had it filmed. He had the camera on the green at the time, so it showed the ball going in as well."
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