Wake Forest Athletics
Laura Diaz Pulls Off Rare Feat
4/2/2014 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
April 2, 2014
By Gary Petit, Wake Forest Athletic Communications (@WakeWGolf)
Who needs a putter when you can hole-out from the fairway? Or the tee? Former Demon Deacon and current volunteer assistant coach Laura Diaz pulled-off a feat this past weekend at the LPGA's Kia Classic that no other professional golfer has done in an event.
Diaz recorded hole-in-ones in each of the final two rounds. But if becoming just the second LPGA player to ever have two hole-in-ones in the same event wasn't enough, Diaz then became the first player to follow a hole-in-one by holing her shot from the fairway for eagle on the very next hole.
In the third round, Diaz made an ace on the par-3 third hole and then used the same club, a 50-degree wedge, to hole-out for eagle on the par-5 fifth just two holes later.
In the final round on Sunday, she holed her tee shot on the par-3 sixth and then canned her second shot on the par-4 seventh. On the seventh hole, she used the same 50-degree wedge that she holed two shots with the day before, to knock the shot in from 122 yards out.
Diaz shot rounds of 2-under 70 both days and finished the event in a tie for 32nd. That was enough to get her in the field this week at the LPGA's first major of the year, the Kraft Nabisco Championship in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
