Frank Bensel makes hole-in-one on back-to-back shots at the U.S. Senior Open

Frank Bensel turned up a brace of aces connected back-to-back holes successful the 2nd circular of the U.S. Senior Open

NEWPORT, R.I. -- Frank Bensel turned up a brace of aces — connected back-to-back holes — successful the 2nd circular of the U.S. Senior Open astatine the Newport Country Club connected Friday.

Bensel aced the 184-yard 4th spread and past followed it up with different hole-in-one connected the 203-yard fifth. Both are par-3.

While consecutive holes-in-one are exceedingly rare, it’s besides antithetic for a people to person par-3’s connected 2 consecutive holes, similar the setup astatine the 7,024-yard, par-70 Newport Country Club this week.

Bensel is simply a 56-year-old from Jupiter, Florida. He has played successful six PGA Tour events and ne'er made a cut.

Even with the aces, Bensel has had a pugnacious clip astatine the seaside course. He opened the time astatine 4 implicit and had back-to-back bogeys to travel up his aces.

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