Chez Reavie experiences a round to remember

Do it once, OK, maybe Lady Luck is on your side that day.

Twice? A world class wedge player might make two in a full season.

But three eagles on par-4s in the same round? That had never happened on the PGA Tour on record (since 1983) until Friday morning at Waialae Country Club.

Chez Reavie holed out from at least 100 yards three times in a 15-hole span during the second round to shoot into a tie for third place at 10 under at the Sony Open in Hawaii.

It was the second straight 65 for Reavie, who entered the tournament ranked No. 63 in the world. The score was about the only similarity from Thursday’s first round, as Reavie made PGA Tour history with the kind of shot-making normally found only in the movies.

“I was trying to think back to any round I even had more than one hole-out and I couldn’t think of any,” said Reavie, who is tied with Stewart Cink, four shots back of leader Matt Kuchar.

The 37-year-old Arizona State alumnus brought the heat from his very first hole, when he cupped a sand wedge from 101 yards out for a two on the par-4 10th.

Starting his round on the back nine, Reavie strung together five straight pars before dialing one in again from long range.

After a 292-yard drive put the ball in the right fairway, Reavie took out a 9-iron and touched the bottom of the cup from 149 yards out just in front of the famed ‘W’ palm trees that separate the course from the Pacific Ocean.

The television cameras weren’t on yet for the Golf Channel broadcast of the second round and missed the hat trick when Reavie took advantage of a 339-yard drive with yet another eagle, holing out on the par-4 sixth from 135 yards with a gap wedge.

“The gap wedge is new for me this year,” said Reavie, who has made the cut all six times in the 2018-19 season. “I haven’t played with gap wedge in the past, so it was nice to hole out with that one.”

When Reavie holed out for the third time, two of the caddies in their group threw their hats at him, signaling the hat trick.

Reavie said it really didn’t get to him until he hit from the fairway on No. 8 (his 17th hole) with a possible fourth hole-out in play.

“I didn’t think about it at all until after the third one went in,” Reavie said. “I hit a pitching wedge (on No. 8). It was on a good line, and that was the only time it crossed my mind before the ball went in the hole — ‘Wow, could we make another one?’ ”

Reavie made a hole-in-one on No. 17 when he shot his career-best 61 at Waialae two years ago. He also holed out with a wedge for eagle during the second round of his only PGA Tour win — the RBC Canadian Open in 2008.

“It’s always a surprise when it disappears,” Reavie said. “I mean, obviously it’s unusual, but I’m still whatever, (four) back of Kuch. We’re just trying to make as many as we can.”

Eagles?

“Birdies, eagles, anything red — hole-in-ones,” Reavie said.

They were all in play on Friday.