Freak hole-in-one golfing success across three generations, using same club at same hole

Golfing tales from around the globe are filled with the most improbable events —  multiple holes-in-one in the same round, different players scoring holes-in-one with consecutive strokes, holes-in-one that bounce off trees.

But at Tasmania Golf Club, not far from Hobart Airport, comes a tale that might be unmatched anywhere in the world.

Our story starts in 1982 when Peter O'Keefe had a hole-in-one at the the 8th hole — a picturesque 159 metre, par 3.

He used an Australian made 5-iron — a Keith Knox DM 139.

On Peter's death, his clubs were passed on to his son Graham.

A decade after Peter's hole-in-one, Graham O'Keefe was playing at Tasmania GC and pulled out his dad's old 5-iron on the 8th tee and hit the ball into the hole.

Two holes-in-one from a father-son combination on the same hole using the same club is a highly improbable feat. 

This writer has never heard of such an occurrence, but while it is highly unusual, it is unlikely to be unique. 

Surely some father/son or parent/child combination over the years, nay centuries, of golf, have had holes-in-one on the same hole using the same club?

But this story does not end here.

Several years after Graham's hole-in-one, he bought himself a shiny new set of graphite shafted clubs.

Graham then handed his father's clubs down his son Glen.

In 1999, Glen O'Keefe stood on the tee at the 8th hole at Tasmania Golf Club, armed with his grandfather's old set, and hit the ball into the hole.

After the round, he rang his father to celebrate.

«I told him I'd had my first hole-in-one. He said, 'congratulations, which hole?' I told him the 8th.

»He said, 'Oh fantastic, the same as grandad and myself.' He said, 'what club did you use?' I said, 'the 5-iron' and there was some silence.

«As soon as he