#VicOpen round 2 | Pocket aces headline dramatic day - PGA of Australia

#VicOpen round 2 | Pocket aces headline dramatic day


Jarryd Felton and China’s Jing Yan secured two holes in one in a dramatic round 2 at the ISPS HANDA #VicOpen.

Felton aced the par three 12th hole at 13th Beaches creek course with his nine iron.

It was the West Australian’s third hole-in-one in his career.

The 24-year-old said he simply used the wind to his advantage on the 138-metre-long hole.

“I tried to hit a nine iron on the hole before so I thought it’d be the perfect club and I just hit up with the wind,” Felton said.

“It hit the slope and Marto (Andrew Martin) called it 30-feet out and went ‘get in’ and I was just happy it went down in the little hollow there.

“I’m greateful it went in. It was a nice one.”

Yan secured her first tournament hole-in-one – but her fourth overall – on the third hole of the beach course.

The young gun, armed with a seven-iron, was elated to ace the 140-metre par 3.

“I needed to carry the bunker on the left with the wind coming to the right. I just hit a little draw and tried to hold it up into the wind,” Yan said.

“I was really happy with how the shot came out. It looked like it was rolling towards the hole. I didn’t really think that it might go in.

“Players and the caddies in the group were like ‘oh, it went in’ so I was pretty stoked about that.”


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