The chances of being born with an extra finger or toe are one in 500.
The chances of visiting the hospital emergency ward for a pogo stick related injury are one in 115,300.
The chances of winning an Olympic gold medal are one in 662,000.
And the chances of being struck by lightning are one in 700,000.
But… the chances of two amateurs playing together and making two hole-in-ones in the same round are much, much lower- one in 1,300,000 in fact.
So, why is any of this relevant?
Well, over the Christmas break, young Hawk James Sicily brought that one in 1,300,000 to life.
On the 12th hole at Huntingdale Golf Club, Sicily pulled out his seven iron to deal with the 148-metre, par 3 hole.
By his own admission, his form hadn’t been quite up to scratch in the lead up to the hole (probably understandable given that he only started playing golf in February last year), but he was keen to make amends in the final eight holes of the round.
As Sicily describes it, “I thinned the shot a little bit and it stayed low, but then we just watched it slowly trickle in.
“I was playing pretty poorly that day so when it went in I was a bit shocked, but obviously very happy,” the crafty forward said.
And the celebration?
“We all just threw our clubs in the air and it was high-fives all-round. It was pretty surreal to be honest,” Sicily explains.
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Playing in a group that included PGA Tour Pro Michael Choi and Essendon star Brendan Goddard, it would be fair to assume that, if they were going to pull off this one in 1,300,000 occasion, the professional golfer would likely be the leading candidate to help out.
Yet as it happened, only three holes later, Goddard knocked in his own hole-in-one, the third of his golfing career, to complete what would forever be an incredible golfing story.
Sicily explains that there is a large group of Hawks that have brought about his new hobby, among them Luke Breust, Jack Gunston, Taylor Duryea, Isaac Smith and Ryan Schoenmakers.
The youngster notes that Luke Breust currently holds the golfing crown at the Ricoh Centre.
But that mantle is sure to be more hotly contested now that Sicily is seemingly on his tail.
