Oak Hill Is Home to One of Golf History's Strangest Records
Thirty-four years ago at Oak Hill Country Club, the site of this week's PGA championship, the unthinkable happened. During the second round of the 1989 US Open at Oak Hill, four players all made aces in a span of 2 hours, on the same hole with the same club.
According to one mathematician, the feat had a probability of 410 quadrillion to one. And the whole thing wasn't even captured on live TV.
On the 167-yard 6th hole, Doug Weaver, Mark Wiebe, Jerry Pate, and Nick Price all drained their tee shots. Since the four players teed off early in the morning, the invention of the iPhone was still 18 years away, and there weren’t even any TV cameras on the 6th hole at the time, so unfortunately there is no existing footage.
Today, that par 3 also doesn’t exist, since Oak Hill was renovated in 2019 and removed the hole. A halfway house stands just yards away from the hole’s original location and members like to call it ‘Aces Cafe’.
The Four Aces will forever be cemented in the major championship venue’s history as an occurrence that can never be repeated.
