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Rick "Ace" Krausman, middle, poses with clubhouse manager Mick Briggs, left, and course superintendent Billy Christian, right, after his two hole-in-ones on Tuesday in a photo posted to the Brookside Golf Course's Facebook Page.

Krausman with the cake that Briggs bought for him. Photo posted on the Brookside Golf Course's Facebook page.

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Rick "Ace" Krausman, middle, poses with clubhouse manager Mick Briggs, left, and course superintendent Billy Christian, right, after his two hole-in-ones on Tuesday in a photo posted to the Brookside Golf Course's Facebook Page.

ASHLAND — It was a good day for golf on Tuesday.

The sun was shining, the temperature was mild, and most importantly, there wasn't a lot of wind.

Municipal court employee and former police instructor Rick Krausman decided to head out to Brookside Park to play some golf, like he does most days.

Krausman started golfing in his college days because he "didn't want to go to class," he said. Now 70 years old, he's carried on his hobby ever since, eventually moving to Ashland and starting to golf at Brookside Park in 2007.

But on Tuesday, he wasn't expecting any outstanding results. In fact, he felt like he was struggling with his swing a bit. 

"Things were off, and I was just working extra hard to try to put a good swing on the ball," he said.

He eventually reached Hole 4, where he had landed a hole-in-one in the past. He whacked the ball with his 8 iron, feeling like he had a good swing and the ball had a good trajectory.

Dane Royse, a fellow golfer who had been with Krausman at his previous hole-in-one, saw the ball nestle itself into the hole.

"He just looked at me and said 'You did it again, didn't ya?'," Krausman said.

Ten holes later, he would sink yet another hole-in-one on Hole 14 from 122 yards away, using a 9 iron.

He knew what he had accomplished was once-in-a-lifetime.

"My hands were shaking by the time I got back to the clubhouse. You know, I'm pretty laid back, my demeanor is such that not too much phases me. I indeed understood it was pretty special," he said.

Krausman with the cake that Briggs bought for him. Photo posted on the Brookside Golf Course's Facebook page.

The odds of a golfer getting a hole-in-one are about 12,500 to 1. Before Tuesday, Krausman only had seven hole-in-ones over the 40-plus years he'd been golfing.

The Brookside golf course normally only sees around 10 holes-in-one per year, and in its 51 years in operation a golfer never had two in the same day, clubhouse manager Mick Briggs said.

In fact, this feat is so rare that the National Hole-in-One Registry estimates the odds of it happening are 67 million to 1. An average American is 4,379 times more likely to get struck by lightning than get two holes-in-one on the same round.

"The whole thing was out of the ordinary. I was very impressed," Briggs said.

Golf course employees quickly put up a sign to commemorate his astronomical feat and Briggs even bought him a cake, much to Krausman's surprise.

"I was just dumbfounded. But it just goes to show you what the people of Ashland are like. The members are huge, huge, pieces of your family after a while," Krausman said.

Krausman also received a third reward for his accomplishment, a new nickname of "Ace". 

"In my time in law enforcement, I've been called a lot worse than that," Krausman said. 

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