PLAYERS at Coolamatong Golf Club have been improving their aim in recent times with the second hole-in-one for the year by Mick Thoms in late March.

Teeing off the eighth hole, Thoms who plays off a 10 handicap and is usually quite accurate, hit a superb and straight six-iron into the hole.

Thoms said it landed just short of the green, but they did not see it finish. Approaching the green and not sighting the ball, he said to the group it surely couldn’t have gone over, and he found it sitting in the bottom of the cup.

He said it was nice to happen playing with some of his regular playing partners Geoff Wilkinson and Bruch Hart, and Pom Wheeldon also in the group.

It was the second ace of his golfing career, the first one being when he lived overseas in America many years prior.

“It cost me a few dollars over the bar,” Thoms said.

Not that he was complaining after such a great shot and one of the rarities in most golfers’ lives.

“But it was far more expensive the first time I had a hole in one, as there were more people in the bar in the USA," he said.