Three aces, three golfers, same hole, same day at Taihape

The 14th at the Taihape Golf Club opened itself for three aces, by three golfers on the same day over Easter weekend.

Hand on heart, Danny Mickleson swears it is not an April Fools hoax.

The Taihape Golf Club is claiming a possible world first after three players holed-in-one on the same hole, on the same day.

Unfortunately, the day just happened to be Sunday, April 1, the irony of which was not lost on greens superintendent and former club captain and president Mickleson.

New member Hayden Brain, Hawkestone golfer Joe Stella and local member Chris George all aced the 96-metre par three 14th within short succession.

What beggars belief is that the perfect strokes came from a fields of just 28 playing in the club's Easter Sunday three-man ambrose.

"There has been many a comment on media confusing the record for an April Fool's joke, but this was certainly not the case," Mickleson said.

"It was quite a random and freakish day, especially as one of the holes-in-one included the unlikely Joe Stella ace that rebounded from the tree to the left of the green and went in off from the one hit.

"I know it sounds like an April Fool's joke, but it's ridgy didge and happened alright. We don't know, but it could be a world first. I've certainly never heard of it before - three in the one day at the same hole.

"It certainly was a good old night in the 19th. We have a policy of matching what they put it," Mickleson said.

A quick search of Google, however, soon put the Taihape claims to bed.

In January this year - and not April 1 - the Oxford Golf Club in Oxfordshire, England had three members all hit holes-in-one on the same day and on the same hole. To add to the unlikelihood, two of the aces came on consecutive swings on the 201-yard 15th hole.