However, it was then a long time between drinks and took until 2006 for Bristol to get the third, followed by the fourth this week.
"It was on the flag and had a couple of bounces and then went in the hole," Bristol said.
A lifetime member of the Castlecliff Golf Club, Bristol started playing golf in 1964 during his senior years at Whanganui Technical College (now Whanganui City College).