After Andrew Magee's historic hole in one at a par-four in Phoenix last weekend, Des Cahill invited calls to last Monday's Sportscall programme on RTE Radio 1 from anyone who had observed a similar feat. As it happened, he got a few very interesting responses, but not from a man who was an eyewitness to something really special.

Mind you, people like Christy O'Connor Snr don't tend to make phone calls to radio sports shows. But had he done so, O'Connor could have told a fascinating tale regarding the 1971 Martini Tournament at Royal Norwich, where English professional John Hudson had a hole-in-one on the 190-yard 11th hole. Then, after a 20-minute wait on the next tee, he proceeded to have another ace, with the driver on the downhill, 311-yard par-four 12th.

This time the ball ran through stunned players still putting on the green while O'Connor, in the next three-ball, looked on incredulously. The general consensus is that a hole in one is simply down to good fortune, but professional Stuart Brown would dispute that assertion. After hooking his tee-shot into bushes on the short second hole during the 1980 Kenya Open at Muthaiga GC, he elected to play a provisional ball which popped straight into the cup.

However, before getting the chance to bring the ball into play by picking it out of the cup, his original ball was found and Brown eventually completed the hole with a bogey four. Later that day, he discovered he had missed the halfway cut by a stroke.