An average day of golf was anything but for Shepparton Golf Club’s Sonya Hill last week.
Hill was participating in the club’s Legacy Day playing four-ball best-ball stableford and after making par first up all seemed normal.
However, Hill would strike gold with her next swing of the club.
“I hit a sweet shot on the green, pulled one that rolled slightly to the right of the flag, then veered left and suddenly disappeared,” Hill said.
“When we saw it disappear, we just jumped up and down a bit, went over and took a couple of pictures.
“That was pretty exciting.”
Indeed, Hill’s hole-in-one achievement was the toast ― in a literal sense ― of the cohort later that evening.
“Everyone was high-fiving and hugging when the round was over,” Hill said.
“The bar was shouting all the women later on and they toasted me; it was all pretty special.”
The extraordinary feat was evidently not lost on Hill or her counterparts within the day’s play.
That said, as a woman who first learned to play in primary school and has consistently golfed at Shepparton for more than a decade following a hiatus, Hill grasps the stellar fortune bestowed upon her that many golfers never quite reach.
She happily dubs her one big swing the crowning achievement of her time in the game.
“You don’t go out every day aiming to get a hole-in-one,” Hill said.
“In hindsight, you sit back and think, ‘a lot of golfers never get one’.
“It’s quite an achievement, but at the end of the day, it’s the luck of the ball roll.”