After Matt Alves hit his tee shot on hole No. 5 at Blissful Meadows in Uxbridge Wednesday afternoon, the Leicester High sophomore saw the ball bounce a few times, strike the pin and drop into the hole.
An ace for Alves.
“I was in a lot of shock when I saw it go in, and didn’t really know what to do,” Alves told the T&G Thursday. “I turned around with my hands and club in the air and gave high fives to everyone.”
It marked the first career hole-in-one for the left-handed golfer. With his pitching wedge, Alves hit his Bridgestone ball 140 yards and into the back of the cup for an eagle.
“It was one of the best things I have felt in a while and still can’t believe it went (in),” said Alves, who is a left winger for the Worcester Wildcats boys’ ice hockey team. “It was just unbelievable to be able to do it in front of all those people I had just met and especially in front of (the Douglas golf) coach, and I feel it couldn’t have (come) at a better time.”
Around the same time Wednesday afternoon, St. John’s freshman Lukas Schleyer was tearing up Wachusett Country Club in West Boylston.
In a good way.
After bogeying his first hole, Schleyer went 7-under over his final eight holes to tie a school record (previously set by former T&G Golfer of the Year Ronan Mooney) with a 6-under-par round of 30 in the Pioneers’ win over Nashoba.
“It was pretty crazy,” Schleyer said. “I didn’t miss a putt inside 25 feet after the first hole. It was pretty cool to do it that early in my SJ golf career.”
A day after he putted “the worst I ever had” in a win over Tantasqua at Wachusett (and carding a 2-over par 38), Schleyer decided to skip the driving range on Wednesday and head straight to the putting green.
The 14-year-old from Westminster recovered from his opening bogey to make birdie on No. 2 and then made an eagle on the third hole, a par 4 in which he drove the green with his 3-wood. Schleyer sunk the putt with his TaylorMade flat stick.
“It obviously seemed to work,” said Schleyer of his pre-match routine that day.
Following his record-tying round, Schleyer was interviewed in the parking lot by one of his teammates.
“Putts were dropping,” Schleyer said.
It was a Wednesday to remember for these two golfers from Central Mass.
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