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Aces wild at Mayakoba Golf Classic

Not one, but two pros will be buying drinks tonight after acing the par-3, 4th hole at the Mayakoba Golf Classic.

Aces are wild at the Mayakoba Golf Classic.

With only one round in the books, there already have been two holes-in-one at the fourth hole – in back-to-back groups, no less.

First, it was Cameron Tringale, who teed off at 8:10 a.m. on Friday and marked a one on his scorecard at the 112-yard, par-3 fourth at El Camaleon Golf Club.

“It looked good the whole way,” Tringale told PGA Tour.com. “It landed about two inches short and went straight in.”

It was his second career hole-in-one on the PGA Tour (2011 Valspar Championship) and the second ace at the fourth hole in tournament history (Aaron Wise did the trick in Round 1 in 2016). Tringale signed for 2-under 69.

“It was early, so there weren’t too many spectators,” he said. “They cheered, threw their hands up. I wasn’t really paying attention to them. I was slapping fives with the guys in the group (Fabián Gómez and K.H. Lee).”

 

But, Tringale can split the bar bill for his heroics with rookie Chase Seiffert, who shot 68 and recorded his first hole-in-one on Tour, also at the fourth.

“We were in the fairway and heard the applause and saw (Tringale) kind of high-fiving everyone. I just tried to hit a 106 shot, downwind. It landed maybe a foot right of it and spun back into the pin. It’s kind of cool to go back-to-back there. Very rare,” Seiffert said. “There may have been six or seven people around the green, so it was quiet except for us on the tee. My caddie (Brian Fitch) and I high-fived way too hard, and my hand got a little sore for a few minutes.”

There were no keys to a car up for grabs, but Tringale and Seiffert were rewarded with bottles of Patrón tequila. The two aces ups the tally to seven in the first 10 events of the 2019-20 season. There were 36 holes-in-one last season.

When was the last time aces were made in back-to-back groups, you ask? Padraig Harrington and Kirk Triplett did so at the 16th hole in the final round of the 2004 Masters Tournament.

The National Hole-in-One Registry says that the odds of a PGA Tour pro getting a hole-in-one is 3,000 to 1. (It also says the “average” golfer has a 12,000 to 1 shot at making an ace).

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