Lightning struck twice at the Sanderson Farms Championship as not one but two PGA Tour players aced the same hole on the same day. Matt Kuchar and Niklas Norgaard were the men to do so on the 183-yard par-three fourth at the Country Club of Jackson in Mississippi.
For the latter, it was his first hole-in-one on the PGA Tour, but the Dane did not get to watch his ball go in due to the hidden putting surface on this particular hole. As such, relatively restrained celebrations followed, although Norgaard did eventually lift both arms aloft after picking his ball out of the cup, receiving a warm response from the gallery.
Kuchar then hit an almost identical shot to the player 14 years his junior, also landing his tee shot in a similar spot, around 12 yards from the hole, before the ball rolled up the green and into the hole.
The veteran also birdied the previous par-five hole and ended his opening round with back-to-back birdies to finish four-under at tied for 13th.
Norgaard, however, followed up his ace with a bogey, with another coming on the eighth hole to finish the front nine even. He also played the back nine even after a pair of birdies and bogeys, finishing the opening day tied for 88th.
The Dane is just over a year removed from winning the British Masters at The Belfry, his first victory on the European Tour. Kuchar, meanwhile, is a much more experienced campaigner.
He came second to Jordan Spieth at the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, a year after winning the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The American is a former World No. 4 and a veteran of four Ryder Cup teams, between 2010 and 2016, with the latter being his only success.