QUICK!!!!!!
Run for your lives! The End is Near!
Apparently, four aces were made at the 1989 US Open on the same hole on the same day, just one hour and 50-minutes apart.
Probability Games :
No.of golf courses in the World - 24,000 Accurate
No.of golf rounds per day globally - 2,400,000 Estimate
No.of holes per round - 18
Total holes of golf played per day - 43,200,000
Chances of getting a hole-in-one - 13,000 : 1
No. of aces in a day globally - 3,323
My basic mathematics study (not my greatest subject...) does not extend to advanced probability theory, but the chances of three holes-in-one at the same course on the same day must be astronomical.
Perhaps it is 13,000 cubed, i.e. 1 in 2,197,000,000,000
One in 3 Trillion !!!
Hole of golf played every year = 15,768,000,000
No. of years since a similar event = 15
Holes of golf played in last 15 years = 236,520,000,000
The last figure mentioned is still only 1/9th of the actual probability figure, so the event that took place here in Melbourne really is out-of-the-box so to speak.
Any expert mathematicians reading this post will probably be able to poke big holes through my calculations above. I am interested to know if anyone out there knows how to calculate accurately the true probabilty of the "Three Aces in One Day/Same Course" scenario.
Gee whiz, the golfing planets must be in alignment this month...I wonder what the Master of the Universe's Golf Handicap is ?