ANDY Hutton has just clocked up his 13th hole in one - shortly after returning to the game of golf and joining his new club at Stocksfield.
The 45-year-old aced the 130-yard 18th at Stocksfield with a gap wedge to make it lucky 13 some five years after his 12th ace.
He's been out of the game for a while through choice but came back this season and joined Stocksfield.
A single-figure handicap, Hutton is from one of Consett’s best-known golf families – his brothers Ian and John are both decent players as well.
His 12th ace came the day after his 40th birthday party at Consett in the club's men's open and that prompted discussions then that it may well be worth a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
Locally, there are reports in the past of Dick Johnson, from Northumberland Golf Club, who had accumulated ten holes-in-one and last year Whitburn's Gordon Scrowther also achieved that target.
The world record is reportedly held by Long Beach's Norman Manley who has an amazing 59 holes in one.
Andy's first hole-in-one arrived in 1992, one of three that year. Two more came the following year, and the others followed regularly.
"There can be an element of luck in a hole-in-one," said Andy, "but I have to say that this one was a good shot.”
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