Richard Ives, Randy Shelton and Kieran Collins all notched a hole-in-one on Hole No. 6 on the same afternoon at Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club in Union, Wash. As each of the golfers returned to the clubhouse for celebratory beers, the party grew bigger and bigger. “Everyone was ecstatic,” recalls Alderbrook Head Golf Pro Grant Cation. “I had an event going on at the driving range from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. that day and I kept hearing all the hooting and hollering.” Cation discovered that the odds of this happening in one afternoon on the same hole was 27 trillion to 1.

At Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club in Union, Wash., luck struck on three distinct occasions in one day as three separate golfers each hit a hole-in-one on the same hole, ThurstonTalk reported.

Just getting a hole-in-one is quite the feat, but the celebrations raged on even more than usual as each of these golfers managed this amazing achievement.

Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club has been established in Union since 1965, serving the local residential community and the general public alike, ThurstonTalk reported. Over the years, this semi-private golf club has been no stranger to hole-in-ones, and even has its own tradition for celebrating this accomplishment.

“It used to be that when you got a hole-in-one, you buy drinks for everyone else,” shares Alderbrook Head Golf Pro Grant Cation. “Now our men’s club covers $150 of your tab for bar drinks, and we even have a bell inside the restaurant that we ring to start up a tab.” That bell ringing three times in one afternoon was quite an incredible phenomenon that had never been seen there before, ThurstonTalk reported.

The first bell rang for Richard Ives, who was playing as part of Alderbrook’s Men’s Club in the morning, ThurstonTalk reported. Randy Shelton was the second player, who came to the course after Men’s Club had wrapped up. The final golfer to achieve the hole-in-one was Kieran Collins, a fellow golf professional from Salish Cliffs Golf Club who was playing the course for the first time since relocating to the area. When each of them got to Hole #6 that day to tackle the par 3, each of them walked away with a hole-in-one to celebrate. As each of the golfers returned to the clubhouse for celebratory beers, the party grew bigger and bigger.

“Everyone was ecstatic,” recalls Cation. “I had an event going on at the driving range from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. that day and I kept hearing all the hooting and hollering.”

After hearing about this incredible achievement, Cation discovered that the odds of this happening in one afternoon on the same hole was 27 trillion to 1, ThurstonTalk reported. Although hole-in-ones are more common than people think, this triple hole-in-one proved to be an extremely rare occurrence, and is likely a once-in-a-lifetime experience that these golfers will never forget.