Golf Genes
Two holes-in-one in one day? Jack Burke Jr.'s grandson pulled off a Master-fulfeat in Houston
Dean Burke is a scratch golfer — good golf genes run in the family.
In 1956, Burke's grandfather, Jack Burke Jr., won the Masters. Today, he owns the Champions Golf Club, where, on March 27, his grandson Dean performed a feat few have even witnessed: He sunk two holes-in-one in one day.
Yes, there were witnesses, Dean says. He was with friends Timothy Thompson and Mark Bohn when he sunk the first one, from 165 yards, and nearly a dozen more people at other holes witnessed the second, from 210 yards away.
Dean said he'd been playing well lately, but those two shots were just, well, perfect. So how did he spend the rest of his day after such a show of luck?
"You know, they don't sell lotto tickets on Sundays, and I figured my luck was probably up for the day," Dean tells CultureMap. So he declined a buddy's offer to fly him to Las Vegas.
Dean says the holes, No. 16 and No. 4, don't hold any special significance, except that the 16th hole at Champions was the site of his first-ever hole-in-one when he was — you guessed it — 16 years old. Jack Burke Jr. founded Champions Golf Club in 1957, and the Burkes have been playing there for generations.