Meet the Hesston 13-year-old golfer who made two holes-in-one in same round in Kansas

Some of the best golfers can go their entire lives without scoring a hole in one.

Evan Koehn, a 13-year-old from Hesston, had the experience of a lifetime on Monday when he made two holes-in-one in the same round during a Kansas Junior Golf Tour event at Terradyne Country Club in Andover.

In a span of mere hours, Koehn upped his career hole-in-one total from zero to two. According to the National Hole-In-One Registry , the odds of making two aces in a single round are 67 million to 1.

“It’s still so surreal,” said Ryan Koehn, his father who followed him during the round. “It’s an incredible feat just to make one in your life. To get two in the same round, I’m still shocked. I think he is too.”

Evan teed off on the back-nine of Terradyne on Monday morning with the third hole of the day being the 118-yard par-3 on No. 12. He pulled out his 8-iron and planted his shot about 15 feet left of the pin on the hole nicknamed “Thickets.”

Sitting in a golf cart behind the tee box, his father sat up in his seat.

“Once I saw it land and realized it was trickling toward the hole,” Ryan said, “I was thinking, ‘This could be pretty good. Maybe a tap-in birdie.’”

The ball continued to slide toward the hole until, finally, it disappeared.

Everyone around Evan erupted in screams and celebration. Meanwhile, the eighth-grader who had just scored his first hole-in-one was suspended in disbelief.

“I didn’t even know what to do,” said Evan, who began golfing when he was 7. “I just kind of stood there in shock.”

When he teed off on the next hole, Evan was still shaking. The adrenaline rush made it difficult to settle back down into his routine.

Each time the group of three players and their families in the gallery reached a par-3, they joked with Evan about doing it again. On No. 15 and No. 3, he only made par.

When they made it to the final par-3 of the day, the 100-yard No. 8 hole named “Sumac,” they were delayed. By the time Evan’s group was ready to hit, the group behind them and their walking gallery were now waiting by the same tee box.

The last to hit, Evan was nervous when he glanced back and saw around 15 people watching him.

“I was getting pretty nervous,” Evan said. “I don’t like people watching me that often.”

Those nerves didn’t show up in his shot, as he gripped his pitching wedge and once again landed his shot on the green. This time, however, it was about 20 feet short of the hole and funneled its way to the cup like the ball was rolling off a putter.

And for the second time of the day, Evan’s tee shot disappeared .

“People just went nuts,” Ryan said. “Some of the parents in the group behind us were going crazy and then they heard that it was actually his second of the day and they couldn’t believe it. I don’t think anyone could.”

Evan was still too stunned to celebrate, other than a grin that spread across his face when his father wrapped him in another bear hug and his competitors gave him emphatic high-fives.

“It feels really good,” Evan said afterward. “I didn’t know if I would get one for a while, so now I can say I at least got a hole-in-one in my life. I’m just happy to get one.”

There was no extravagant celebration by Evan and his parents, Ryan and Rebecca, following the round. In fact, the restaurant the family tried to go to on Monday was closed.

But that is a concern for another day. For now, Evan is focused on the second day of competition at Terradyne after shooting an 8-over round of 79, the top 13-year-old score in the field, to tie for fifth place in the 13-to-15 age division.

“You always love to see your kids do well,” Ryan said. “But something like this? It’s unbelievable. Definitely a proud parent moment, for sure.”