A hole in one is rare, but not impossible.

On courses around the Upstate there has been no shortage of aces.

Two-time Greenville County Amateur champion Garland Ferrell carded two holes in one in the same round.

A pair of golfers at Palmetto Hills aced the same hole in the same group
and a third golfer was a couple of feet short.

A golfer at an upstate course aced the same hole in two consecutive rounds
and we have had reported on aces made by golfers from age 8 to 83.

But we haven’t had a story about one golfer acing two par 4 holes in the same week until now.

Say hello to Miller Whiteford, who aced two par-4 holes at Oconee Country Club in the same week.

Oconee’s General Manager Mel Parson, who has had a few holes in one herself, can’t remember anyone making an ace on the clubs 10th or 17th hole before.

“Somebody may have done it, but nobody remembers it around here,” she said. “Miller may be the first one to do it,” she added.

Whiteford is a Clemson student, who played some high school golf at Walhalla.

He had a first hole-in-one a few years back and had several near misses playing during this past summer.

“I’ve had one before on a par 3 hole, but two on par 4s in the same week is pretty amazing,” he said.

Whiteford made his first hole in one of the week on the 17th hole, playing with his father Bobby and Mike Guenther.

The 17th hole, from the white tees, plays about 330 yards. Whiteford recalls the tees were up a little and there was a strong following wind.

“I hit what I thought wasn’t a very good shot, but my father was watching and said it looked pretty good. Nobody saw it go in and when I got to the hole I looked around the green before I looked in the hole,” he recalled.

He found his ball in the hole.

“I didn’t see it go in and it was a shock when I found the ball in the hole,” he said.

His second ace came just inside of a week from his first, this time on the 10th hole. Cooper Timms, or Randy Pointer playing in the same group with Whiteford didn’t see where his tee shot ended up.

“The 10th hole played about 300 yards. I hit a good shot, but when we got to the hole I didn’t see the ball. We asked the group ahead of us if they saw it, but they didn’t,” he said.

Once again the last place Miller looked was in the hole and once again he found his ball in the cup.

Whiteford’s story has a few other interesting twists.

He was using a new driver after breaking the face on two others. He replaced those two old TaylorMade drivers with a new Qi10 which he used to make his two aces.

He also was the first winner of the clubs Hole-In-One pot.

Last year the club started a hole-in-one club. Golfers, who played in the club’s dogfights, could buy in to the pot.
The pot grew for over a year and was “sizable” and welcomed by the college student.

“The pot for the first hole-in-one was pretty big, but when I made the second one it wasn’t very big at all,” he joked.

There is not much to find fault with two holes-in-one in a week, but Whiteford has one hope for what he hopes will be another hole in one.

“I didn’t see any of them go in the hole. I’d like to see it myself, probably not on a par four again, but I’d like to enjoy seeing it go in,” he concluded.

There were a couple of other aces made at Oconee. They included hole in ones made by Turtle Hiott on number 11 and John Trice on number 6.