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Jake Martinez of Tucson, Arizona, recently made two holes-in-one. In one round. Seven holes apart.
And this weekend Jake will celebrate his 12th birthday.
He was participating in the U.S. Kids Palm Springs Open on Sept. 18 when he aced the 100-yard fifth hole and then the 110-yard 12th hole at Mission Hills North in Rancho Mirage, California. He used a pitching wedge both times.
“I’ve been saying for years, I don’t have one and I’ve been saying since he was tiny that he’s going to beat me to it,” said Rick Martinez, Jake’s firefighter father who watched it all go down who told Golfweek his son accomplishing the feat only confirmed his thought that Jake would beat him to getting a hole in one. As for what club Jake used to get the holes-in-one, it was a pitching wedge as one hole was just 100 yards and the other was 110 yards long.