EVERETT – It is customary for the women at Everett Golf and Country Club to throw a party when one of their own gets a hole-in-one.
These days, the EG&CC Ladies Club is having trouble keeping up with Bobbie Rochford of Edmonds.
On Tuesday, the day the women at EG&CC gathered to celebrate the ace she scored in early October, Rochford dropped in another hole-in-one. It came on the exact same hole – the 98-yard No. 8 – and with the exact same club – a 6-iron – as her earlier hole-in-one.
What are the odds of someone getting identical aces in such a short time span? “I wouldn’t even begin to know,” said EG&CC head pro Bob Borup, “but they’d really be up there.”
Needless to say, her friends were incredulous.
“They were saying, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’” Rochford said. “Especially on my party day. It was unbelievable.”
Her own reaction was somewhat different. “I absolutely broke down and cried,” she confessed. “I couldn’t believe it. Usually people will jump up and down with joy, but I just broke down. I didn’t want one that day because I was playing so bad.”
Remarkably, Rochford now has seven holes-in-one in a golfing career of some 15 years. Two are at Mill Creek Country Club and three at Palm Valley Country Club in Palm Desert, Calif.
Why so many? “I have no clue,” said Rochford, who has a handicap of around 12. “I don’t hit it very far, but I hit it accurately.”
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