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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- What are the odds of sinking a hole-in-one in golf and bowling a 300 game, in a span of two days, at the age of 72? According to several published sources, the odds of an average golfer making an ace is about 12,000 to 1, while the odds of an adult male bowling a perfect game is about 11,500 to 1.
What with doing both, the time constraint and age factor in the mix, those odds should be much, much higher. Astronomical?
Whatever the odds, Terre Haute resident Sherm "Big Daddy" Wilkins, as he is affectionately known, defied those odds by accomplishing both feats recently.
Whatever the odds, Terre Haute resident Sherm "Big Daddy" Wilkins, as he is affectionately known, defied those odds by accomplishing both feats recently.
On Father's Day, Wilkins recorded his first-ever hole-in-one using an 8-iron on the 105-yard No. 7 hole at Mark's Par Three. The very next night, he rolled the fifth 300 game in his lengthy bowling career during league play at Vigo Bowl...
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