Saturday 23 May 2015 19:54, UK
Miguel Angel Jimenez fulfilled his promise to make a record-breaking 10th hole-in-one of his European Tour career on a remarkable third day of the BMW PGA Championship.
The entertaining Spaniard again thrilled the Wentworth galleries with a perfect nine-iron at the 150-yard second hole, his ball pitching a few feet past the pin before spinning back into the middle of the cup.
Jimenez won 288 bottles of beer when he aced the eighth hole in the second round of last week's Open de Espana, a shot which took him level with Colin Montgomerie on nine European Tour holes-in-one.
The 51-year-old almost repeated the feat on the same hole on Sunday, and he had another near miss on the 14th at Wentworth in the first round before promising that his next ace was "coming very soon".
Jimenez was as good as his word as he became the first player to make two aces in the BMW PGA Championship having holed his tee shot at the fifth on his way to victory in 2008, and it was also the second time he has recorded three holes-in-one in a single season - Elliot Saltman is the only other man to have matched that.
Prolific
"It's very prolific this year, the last few months," said Jimenez, who went on to fire a 68 to finish the round four shots off the lead on 10 under par. "First Abu Dhabi, then in Spain last week and now here. I've also holed out a couple of times from the fairway, that means my irons are like darts!
"You get the right distance, the right club, hit a good shot and that's the ingredients you need to make a hole-in-one. It's nice to have the record.
"I was very, very close at 14 on Thursday, but you need the challenge. You have the distance, you have good shots and the strongest part of my game is with my irons."
Jimenez is already the oldest player to have won a European Tour event, and he is looking forward to trying to extend that benchmark with a final-round challenge on Sunday.
"Four shots behind, I'm still in the tournament," he added. "I will concentrate and focus on my own game and try to make another run on Sunday. Anything can happen."
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