The Allen County Country Club golf course has recorded three hole-in-ones in the last several weeks.
Kent Tomson, Tim Stinnett and Drake De La Torre each tallied aces over the course of three weeks.
Retired grounds manager L.C. Lacy said the feat would test the bounds of credibility, had he not personally witnessed one of the shots.
“That’s a lot in a short time,” said Lacy, who managed the course for more than 25 years before retiring in 2024.
Tomson hit his hole-in-one July 9 from 165 yards out using a 5 iron on hole No. 9. Roy Smith, Mike Taylor and Chris Holloway witnessed the event. 
Less than three weeks later, De La Torre accomplished the same feat from 158 yards out using a 7 iron with Adam Atwell, Brett Morrison and Abby Chambers as witnesses. Stinnett sank his hole-in-one on hole No. 2 on July 20 from 170 yards out with a 9 iron. Kevin McGuffin, Chad Bruner, Bill Weston and Jerry Neibarger served as witnesses.
While some may attribute the feats to design defects after the most recent round of course maintenance, Lacy said hole No. 2 and No. 9 were not part of the renovation.
“Those two greens are the oldest greens we have out here,” Lacy said. “They were put in 104 years ago. I saw Tim’s shot.”
“Tim hit a towering shot,” Lacy said. “It bounced one time and went in the hole. A lot of hole-in-ones are freaky. They will hit something or turn right or roll up on the green and fall in, but Tim’s was just a perfect shot.”
While baseball has hitting for the cycle or pitching a perfect game, and bowling has rolling a 300, golf’s rarest feat may be more elusive than any other in sports. Professional golfers go their entire careers without a hole-in-one, because luck is part of the allure. Besides his own, Lacy has witnessed many more.
“I’ve hit three hole-in-ones and two were a week apart. I had one on hole nine and one on hole two in the same week. The other I had in Mexico. It’s unusual.”
“There are guys who have had 20 or 30 hole-in-ones in their lifetimes,” Lacy said. “We’ve had guys out here for 20 or 30 years who never had one, and they’re damn good golfers. It’s crazy, but it happens. One of our best golfers out here, who holds the course record, all his kids have had one and he doesn’t. He’s the best golfer of them all of them.”
