For those fortunate enough to get it, a hole-in-one is a rare gift from the golf gods.

Then there is Hawaii Kai’s Bong Ho Lee, whose accomplishment at Ala Wai Golf Course on Dec. 8 went way beyond rare. Lee aced Ala Wai’s 195-yard 11th hole. Minutes later, he did the same on the 163-yard 15th.

Same ball, same spectacular result, same back nine. Golf Digest, unofficial arbiter of hole-in-one trivia, puts the odds of Lee’s finest golf hour at 67 million to 1.

Lee, 60, moved here from Korea 30 years ago and is retired from Victory Auto Body Shop. He took up the game in 1998 with his wife, Cathy. He golfs about three times a week and has his handicap down around 10.

But until last week, when his 3-wood launched two in one day, there had been no holes-in-one.

His ace on the 11th was out of sight. Lee didn’t find out until the group ahead told him the ball was in the hole.

"He was so happy," Cathy said. "It’s the longest par-3 hole."

By the time their group got to the 15th, it was getting late, so the Lees’ group joined with the group ahead to try to finish.

"The man who saw his ball go in the first time was telling my husband get a hole-in-one again," Cathy recalled. "He said he’d try. He hit the ball and saw it land around the 150 (yard) area but didn’t see it again."

When the golfers got up to the hole they still didn’t see the ball, until they looked in the hole.

"We couldn’t believe it," Cathy said. "The man in the Ala Wai office said it might be the first time someone has had two holes-in-one in the same round there."

Kim earns tour card

Former Hilo resident Kimberly Kim shot one of just five subpar rounds Sunday to earn her way onto the LPGA Tour next year.

Kim’s 2-under 70 was the second-best round on the windy, rainy final day of the LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament in Daytona Beach, Fla. Her five-day total of 2-over 362 earned her a share of 14th. The top 20 got playing cards. Medalist was Aree Song, at 73–354.

Sacred Hearts graduate Ayaka Kaneko shot 78–368 to finish in a five-way tie for 39th. The top 40 earned at least some playing status, but Kaneko lost a tiebreaker and was officially 41st.

Maui’s Shayna Miyajima did not make the 72-hole cut.