Posted on 07/03/2012 8:49:46 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- What are the odds of sinking a hole-in-one in golf and bowling a 300 game, in a span of two days, at the age of 72? According to several published sources, the odds of an average golfer making an ace is about 12,000 to 1, while the odds of an adult male bowling a perfect game is about 11,500 to 1.
What with doing both, the time constraint and age factor in the mix, those odds should be much, much higher. Astronomical?
Whatever the odds, Terre Haute resident Sherm "Big Daddy" Wilkins, as he is affectionately known, defied those odds by accomplishing both feats recently.
Whatever the odds, Terre Haute resident Sherm "Big Daddy" Wilkins, as he is affectionately known, defied those odds by accomplishing both feats recently.
On Father's Day, Wilkins recorded his first-ever hole-in-one using an 8-iron on the 105-yard No. 7 hole at Mark's Par Three. The very next night, he rolled the fifth 300 game in his lengthy bowling career during league play at Vigo Bowl...
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I usually do the reverse.
Golf a 300 ; bowl a 1
What are the odds of the same line being duplicated exactly in an article??
I would have bought a lottery ticket same day, also.
A typical day for Chuck Norris...after he wrestles a pool full of alligators and poisonous snakes.
Celebrates with a cold Dos Equis.
I knocked in a hole in one many years ago, but the tragic thing about it is that my first shot hooked onto the 405 FWY right there by the Goodyear Blimp. I grabbed another ball and shot my mulligan into the cup on a 128 yard par-3 13th hole.
It was sweet regardless of the fact that it was technically only a par.
Big daddy is the man.. im just trying to rummage dinner.
Must have used The Schwartz!
got a hole in one once, the timing was perfect, the blade of the windmill just passed.
Low numbers are better in golf? Who knew?
Don’t just stand there!
Buy a lottery ticket!
What? No hand scoring 31 in cribbage? Lightweight
That is my greatest fear when I take a Mulligan on a par 3. I guess you keep the ball, but you will always know the truth.
Speaking of keeping the ball.... I played the rest of the round with it, (did pretty well) and then hooked it into the driving range on the 18th hole. I was so upset that I tried to talk the owners into letting me out on the range to look for it, but they wouldn’t go for it.
Sigh... it was a Pinnacle 2. Twas a bittersweet day at Dominguez Hills Golf Course. :)
I’ve had a hole-in-one (3-wood on a 187-yard hole) but my best bowling score is 299 (twice-left a 7 pin one time and a 10 pin the next).
Congratulations to the old fella.
If things even out Sherm “Big Daddy” Wilkins is in for something really bad.
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