The game of golf can provide the most thrilling highs and frustrating lows.
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Just ask Mark Bamford.
For the second time in his career, Bamford achieved something that most golfers fail to achieve in a lifetime – an albatross.
Bamford, who plays off a handicap of five, holed out for a two on the par-five 17th hole at Belvoir Park on Saturday.
The second career albatross came five years after his first on the seventh hole at Elmore.
“The 17th played down breeze on Saturday and I had 176m for my second shot,’’ Bamford said.
“Normally I’m 30 metres further back and it’s a stretch to make the green in two.
“I hit a five-iron and it flew into the cup… the ball jammed itself in and took a little piece of the cup out.
“I was pretty sure it was in the hole, but it wasn’t until I got to the green that I was 100 per cent sure.”
It was a far cry from his first albatross at Elmore.
“That day my second shot was through trees and no-one actually saw the ball go in the hole,’’ Bamford said.
While it would be nice to say that Bamford’s albatross highlighted a great round, the golfing gods had the last laugh – again.
“Four holes later I had a 10,’’ Bamford said. “I was all over the place all day to be honest and finished 14-over par. It was a very ordinary round of golf apart from the albatross.”