Columnist Victoria Sun: Partners sink consecutive aces

Victoria Sun

Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001 | 10:02 a.m.

Victoria Sun covers golf for the Sun. Reach her at 259-4078 or by e-mail at victoria@lasvegassun.com.

Henderson resident Paul Wallace calls a hole in one "blind, dumb luck."

He finally got a taste of it last Saturday morning. And the blind, dumb luck struck not once, but twice.

Wallace, partnered with friend Lorrin Carl, was playing a best ball match against Rich Karbowski and Bill Anderson at Desert Willow Golf Club.

He struck his pitching wedge from the white tee of the 95-yard No. 5 hole, but couldn't see the flight of the ball because of the glare coming off the water surrounding the hole.

The foursome believed the ball was lost.

Next up was Carl, who also wielded his pitching wedge.

"One of the other guys thought he saw mine roll into the cup," Carl said. "We didn't know where the hell Paul's was, looked in the cup and there it was."

Both Wallace, 66, and Carl, 73, are 14-handicappers.

It was Wallace's first hole in one and salvaged, he said, a lousy day of golf.

"My game was off that day," Wallace said. "But to have two holes in one in the same foursome is kind of amazing.

"At least something good came out of it."