Local golfer cards two aces in same month

Cindy Stein had gone her entire golfing career without an ace. She’d been close a few times, but never carded an elusive hole-in-one.

Now, she’s got two of them — and they came in the same month.

Stein knocked in her first hole-in-one June 11 on No. 6 of the North Course at Whitefish Lake Golf Club. She used a 6-hybrid on the 120-yard par 3.

From the tee box she watched the ball roll into the cup. Tracy Whisenand and Shawn Whisenand witnessed the shot.

“My friends started jumping up and down and screaming,” Stein recalled of the moment.

“That was my first one ever in 20-25 years of playing golf.”

Eleven days later, it happened again,

This time on No. 15 of the North Course. Stein used a 5-hybrid on the 121-yard par 3. Witnesses were Gretchen Moore and Dave Hunt.

“The green is up on a hill so I couldn’t see it go in, but people on the next tee box were screaming ‘hole-in-one!’” Stein said. “I thought they were kidding. When I got there I asked if I needed to bring my putter. I didn’t need it.”

Tradition has it that anyone who hits a hole-in-one has to buy a round of celebratory drinks at the 19th hole. Stein got out of the deed on the first ace since no one was around the club house. For her second ace she used her hole-in-one “insurance” to cover the round.

“I used my $300 gift card and bought everyone a drink,” she said.

While good things generally happen in threes, Stein said her next hole-in-one will have to wait.

“I’m going on vacation for a week so it will have to wait until I get back,” she joked.