Black Creek Club general manager Rob Riddle told club member Chris Travis that he’d better hurry and buy some lottery tickets.
But Travis already smashed the odds he would need to pick five balls and win $200,000 in the Powerball lottery. Those odds are 5.1 million to 1.
He beat odds of 64 million to 1.
Travis scored two holes-in-one Thursday at Black Creek, a feat Riddle had never heard of from an amateur, and so unlikely that Golf Digest reported in 2008 that it’s a 1-in-64-million chance.
‘”They were both today?’ That’s the question I’ve been getting a lot,” said Travis, who finished the round at even-par 72. “We were making a lot of noise out there this morning.”