Senior golfer scores double hole-in-1 in a single round

'Everybody is going to have a bad shot, everybody is going to have a decent shot. Just remember the good ones,' 89-year-old Hank Plouffe said.

An 89-year-old Winnipeg golfer is proving that age is no reason to slow down.

Hank Plouffe, who will be turning 90 in July, hits up Bel Acres Golf & Country Club, just north of Winnipeg, five days a week, from Monday to Friday.

“It’s the enjoyment of the friendship of the people that you play with,” Plouffe said. “It’s a game; there’s fun to it.”

And it was friendship that drew Plouffe, who averages about 70 games a season, to the game of golf 57 years ago.

“I had a very good friend who was a very good golfer, and he passed away on the golf course in Pinawa,” Plouffe said.

“He was my best friend and he started me into golfing, and from then on, it kept on going.”

Despite decades on the course, Plouffe is still experiencing firsts. In his lifetime, he’s got eight holes in one. The two most recent ones were shot just the other weekend at the Netley Creek Golf Course.

“I hit the ball and I didn’t look up, and he says, ‘Gosh, that looks like it’s going in the hole.’ I said, ‘Yeah right,'” said Plouffe, who was golfing with family at the time.