U.S. Army recruiter Staff Sgt. Blake Robertson poses after his hole-in-one at Frisco Lakes Golf Club, Texas, on May 30, 2026. He followed up with an ace at another North Texas golf course the next day. (George Robertson)
A Dallas-based U.S. Army recruiter said he has achieved a feat on par with that of golfing legend Arnold Palmer — holes-in-one during consecutive rounds.
Staff Sgt. Blake Robertson shot aces at two North Texas golf courses May 30 and 31, his father, George Robertson, told Stars and Stripes.
“My family recently experienced a golf story so rare and so deeply tied to our family history that it has quickly become part of our lore,” he wrote in a recent email, noting that his own father also holed two aces in his lifetime.
U.S. Army recruiter Staff Sgt. Blake Robertson poses after his hole-in-one at Stonebriar Country Club in Texas on May 31, 2026. (George Robertson)
Holes-in-one on consecutive days is ultra rare, but it’s something that seven-time major winner and Coast Guard veteran Arnold Palmer did during the 1986 Chrysler Cup pro-am at TPC in Avenel Farm, Md.
The four-time Masters champion aced No. 3 — a 185-yard par-3 — on back-to-back days using a 5-iron from the same yardage.
“Odds were estimated around 10 million to 1,” the Golf Compendium website says about the feat.
Blake Robertson told the story of his twin aces during a phone call with Stars and Stripes on Sunday. The shots came after 15 years striding the links, including on overseas assignments as a military policeman at Camp Walker, South Korea, and Kaiserslautern and Stuttgart, Germany.
Back then, Robertson golfed at Walker’s Evergreen Golf Course and Ramstein Air Base’s Woodlawn Golf Course. Part of his pitch to potential recruits was the chance to golf during free time while assigned overseas, he said.
The first of Robertson’s twin aces came on No. 14 at Frisco Lakes, just north of Dallas. He recalled aiming his 4-iron over a lake to allow for a side wind to pull the ball back onto the green.
“I usually hit a 5 or a 6 iron, but the wind was blowing so hard,” he said. “I hit the front and it rolled in.”
U.S. Army recruiter Blake Robertson, second from left, celebrates a hole-in-one with family members, including his father, George Robertson, third from left, at Stonebriar Country Club in Texas on May 31, 2026. (George Robertson)
The golfing soldier bought a round of drinks for a few people in the clubhouse and celebrated with friends at a concert that night in Prosper, Texas.
The next day, Robertson joined his dad and some other relatives for a round at Stonebriar Country Club, also in Frisco.
He said he holed out again, also on No. 14. His perfectly struck 7-iron rolled in from 173 yards.
“I hit a little cut, and it landed right in front of the hole,” he said.
Robertson said those aces followed his first hole-in-one eight months earlier.
“For the two back-to-back aces, he happened to be playing a Titleist ball numbered 1776, adding a symbolic, patriotic twist to an already improbable run,” his father wrote.