An Upper East Side grandmother who took up golf only three years ago nailed not one — but two — holes-in-one within minutes of each other on a Florida course.
Real-estate broker Margery Hadar, 73, chalked up her wild round at the Granada Golf Course in Coral Gables on Sunday to unthinkable strokes of good fortune.
“This just shows what a huge degree of luck there is,” a still-beaming Hadar told The Post on Tuesday. “I mean someone else might do it [hit a hole-in-one] with skill, but it certainly wasn’t my skill that did this.”
She holed out from 164 yards on No. 5 and then repeated the feat from 112 yards away on No. 7.
“With the first one, we saw the ball go into the hole and we went crazy,” said Hadar still on her family vacation in South Florida.
Hadar used her driver on both holes, admitting it was an odd club choice for 112-yard No. 7.
“I hate that hole the most,” she said. “I never pick the right club and leave it short every time. So I said, screw it, let’s use the driver.”
Hadar was so convinced that she had hit well beyond the hole, she drove her cart past the green looking for the surely overshot ball.
Then her playing partner saw her ball in the hole, as did a groundskeeper.
“My first thought was great, oh damn — no one is going to believe this,” Hadar said. “But thankfully, he [the groundskeeper] was there and saw it. He ran to the manager to tell him about it.”
Hadar said her deceased father was an avid golfer who once scored a hole-in-one — a feat he treasured and one that was mentioned in his newspaper obituary.
“I’m not retired yet but when the time comes, I wanted some kind of hobby,” said the mother of two and grandmother of four.
“My dad was a great golfer. He wanted me to play, but I was much more team sports, so I never was much into tennis or golf. But you don’t play basketball at age 73.”
Hadar joked that her incredible luck ran out within three hours. While walking on the beach, she stepped on a bee, painfully swelling her foot.
“I mean it swelled up to the size of my driver,” she recalled.
“It shows all luck evens out — and it’s not always good luck!”