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Most golfers will play their entire lives without being lucky enough to record a hole-in-one. The vast majority of people who achieve that feat will pull it off on a par 3, as nailing the cup off the tee on a longer hole is virtually unheard of. However, YouTube golfer Matthew Scharff has now managed to do exactly that on two occasions.
Anyone who’s played (or, perhaps more accurately, subjected themselves to) golf knows the sport can be the ultimate exercise in futility and the source of a virtually infinite amount of frustration. With that said, it has an uncanny ability to keep people coming back, as one good shot has a tendency to make you forget about the dozens of awful ones that came before.
Scharff has experienced those ups and downs as a member of the YouTube collective known as the “Good Good, “ as he and his buddies have racked up over a million subscribers by filming themselves taking on courses around the world.
In 2021, the crew took on ShadowGlen Golf Club in Texas during a round where Scharff and the rest of the guys understandably lost their minds after he hit a hole-in-one on a 290-yard par 4 (which transpired a shot after another player hit the flagstick on their drive).
The Good Good recently headed down to Mexico to take on the Dunes course at Diamante Cabo San Lucas, which features a par 4 with a pin that was 360 yards away from the tee box on the day they were playing.
Scharff pulled out his driver and hit a slight draw that got a generous kick back toward the green after landing and proceeded to make its way toward the flag. While they were unable to figure out where it ended up at first, they quickly realized he’d hit yet another hole-in-one on a par 4 and reacted accordingly (the segment in question kicks off around the 30-minute mark).
The PGA estimates the odds of making a hole-in-one on a par 4 are around one in six million, so the chances of doing it twice are truly astronomical. However, Scharff was able to do exactly that and has the video to prove it.