A father and two sons each made an ace at the same course in the same week. How is that even possible?

Mike Lavezzo loves to tell the story (and rightly so) of his first ace. The teacher at Tamalpais High School in Northern California and his friends had a deal: If any of us makes a hole-in-one, we’re all going to Las Vegas. Well, it happened a handful of years ago at Mill Valley Golf Course, a beloved local course in affluent Marin County.

“We ran off the course, went to Las Vegas for 24 hours and then flew back,” Lavezzo recalls. “And then when we came back, everybody in the club, even just randos, you’d overhear them say, ‘Oh yeah, that’s what we do at Mill Valley. If you get a hole-in-one, you go to Vegas.’”

Well, if that guarantee holds, it sounds like a family trip might be on the horizon—potentially “to the Sphere”—as the elder Lavezzo AND two of his sons each recorded an ace in less than a week, including one on a par 4. All of them came at the par-66 Mill Valley layout, each on a different hole and all with the added pressure of trying to add onto a run for the ages.

It’s tough to fathom, especially for those of us still looking for our first ace, but the trio—Mike, 58, Anthony, 29, and Callum, 23—will remember the tail end of March 2026 for the rest of their lives. Here’s the story, straight from them.

Mike (Saturday, No. 1: 232-yard par 4):

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The green kind of is like cambered left into this hillside, and the move is always to kind of play it off the left hillside and let it come down to the hole. The pin was tucked front so you couldn’t see the hole and I hit a 5-wood right at the bank that we try to play at. And I saw it bounce right, but I couldn’t see it go in the hole. And we went up there, looked for the ball. Eventually, Callum looked in the hole, it was in there. (It was Mike’s sixth hole-in-one—all at Mill Valley.)

Callum (Sunday, No. 4: 120-yard par 3):

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I’ll just go to Mill Valley when I have some free time during the day, and usually, there’s someone there to play with. I showed up in the evening on Sunday, and ended up playing with my dad and this guy Chris Burns that I’ll see out there. So mine was on the fourth hole, and my dad actually left us on the second hole. He walked in. I think it plays 130, 135 uphill. So the pin is also blind on that hole, but you kinda have to shoot it through these long redwoods. And the pin was on the right side. We teed up off of a mat on that hole and just hit a little fade, and I saw it kind of bounce. The greens were a little hard, so I saw the bounce going right at it. I looked at Chris, and I was like, “I think that was a chance.” And then I heard a little tink, so I thought that might be the flag. I went up there, and sure enough, it was in.

I didn’t even pick up the ball. I think I was just jumping up and down. I didn’t even think about my dad’s ace at that point. I was just so excited about mine. And then I put it together. I was, like, “Oh my gosh, my dad had one yesterday. That’s crazy.”

Anthony (Thursday, No. 8: 122-yard par 3):

So, my work schedule is Saturday to Tuesday because I work in EMS. And I was pretty stoked for my dad. And then Callum got one the next day. I just pulled up to the house and wanted to see if they wanted to go out. And so Callum and I ended up going out to the course. As we were driving over, I was like, man, I’ve gotta do it.

No. 8 has a pretty exposed green. It’s got two bunkers on either side, and it’s off mats, but there are a few different ways you can get it. The green slopes from the back down to a flat area on the front. And Callum and I were walking down there, and I was like, “This is the one, man,” and then we started talking about the ways to do it.

And I hit this nice draw that bounced 15 feet or 10 feet in front of the green. It hadn’t rained for a while, so the course was pretty dry at that point. And, you know, it got the right bounce and the right movement towards the pin. And we started freaking out ’cause it was heading right there. And then it stopped right on the lip. Callum and I were like, wait, what happened? And then we watched for like 10 more seconds, and then it dropped in. It was madness.

How does something like this happen?

Mike: I think I heard Nick Faldo once say that the variation on a wedge, if you hit it in the center, it’s only got like a six-inch variation left to right. It’s that precise of an instrument. Three-par shots are like reading a putt. But, yeah, it makes no sense. We’ve got guys who play so much golf who have never had a hole-in-one.

But then there’s this other side of it where it’s like, yeah, you know what? We can do it. You can do it. Like, if you actually think about the shape of the green and the trajectory and all that. It’s always possible.

Anthony: I don’t know how that last one happened. There was just something in the air, or maybe just witchcraft.

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Now what?

You might be wondering what’s next for the Lavezzos. How do they top this?

Well, just this week, Mike, Callum and Anthony won Mill Valley’s Winter League, a Ryder Cup-style tournament in which all three of them ended up on the same team, the Monarchs. Callum even cemented the victory with a birdie on the second playoff hole. They usually “have not done well,” but seem to be on one of the all-time golf hot streaks.

Other than that, they’ll somehow just have to carry on, teeing off when they can at their resurrected Mill Valley, a “uniquely charming public nine hole that everyone has just kinda fallen in love with.”

We doubt three aces in a week will happen again, but you have to leave some luck for the rest of us … unless it’s all out after the recent run we’re now labeling the Mill Valley Miracle.