Siblings set records with dual hole in ones at Gull Lake Golf Course

The great Ben Hogan once said, “The most important shot in golf is the next one.”

For a brother and sister from Calgary though, there was no need for another shot when they got to the fourth hole during rounds at Gull Lake Golf Course four days apart.

Ten-year-old Kohen Yeske had just finished nine holes on July 25 when he came into the clubhouse to find his mother.

“He was out with two buddies and his sister and they came in and said, ‘Mom, we have something to tell you,’ and I’m like what, what, what? ‘You have to guess,’ they said and then he’s like ‘I got a hole in one,’ and honestly I thought they were pulling my leg,” says Shawna Yeske.

In the process, Kohen set a new course record for the youngest player to ever card a hole in one. Instead of the traditional round of beers the player typically buys the clubhouse, the family waited a couple days for another juniors night and bought everyone a round of ice cream.

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July 29 was when the even more astronomically improbable happened.

Kali Yeske, a mere eight-years-old, broke her brother’s days-old record firing a hole in one on the same 120-yard hole.

“She was out with three other girls as part of their regular round and one of them was only four so the grandpa was out with them and he witnessed it,” Shawna continues. “A family had come off the course earlier and said ‘We heard some little girls screaming they got a hole in one,’ and we were thinking wouldn’t it be funny if it was Kali? Little girls scream all the time, but sure enough, she came off the ninth hole, walked up and said, ‘Mom, guess what I did?’ We were in total shock.”

There was another round of ice cream to cap off what was an amazing week for the course, according to Co-Owner Eamon McCann.

‘I have never in the 25 years we’ve owned the golf course witnessed anything like this before,” he says. “It’s just an amazing thing that happened and of course the children won’t realize what they’ve actually done until they get a little older and they’re sitting around some campfire talking about this. We’ll never forget it at the golf course here ever.”

McCann says in 2016, there were seven hole in ones at the course and there have now been three in 2017 — the two from the kids and a third by US Women’s Open champion and former LPGA golfer Sandra Palmer.

As far as a sibling rivalry is concerned, mom says there’s nothing to be worried about.

“Kohen ran up and gave Kali the biggest hug,” she says of when he found out his record was gone. “He was so happy for her.”