THE festive season started early for Coolamatong golfer Kim Weston when he hit his first hole in one on the third hole in the Sunday competition before Christmas.

"it was a five iron, we had a bit of head wind. I played the hole the day before and hit six iron short. A five iron was perfect," Weston said.

Weston said after the shot his playing partners thought it might have gone in.

“Charlie and Laurie said that's in and Thomo said that might be over the back. When we got up here, it was in the hole. It was unbelievable, to play for 60 years and have a hole in one," he said.

The neighbouring farmer, whose property stretches along most of the course’s boundaries said he had been close before in his 60 years of golfing but had never achieved the feat previously.

As expected, he was over the moon with the shot and called his 98-year-old mother, June, a Coolamatong golf member herself in earlier days to relay his great news.

Having played since he was twelve years old at Coolamatong, Kim said he had achieved everything at the golf course including winning the club championship, the open championship, shooting par figures when the club had sand greens plus was a champion bowler when the club had a bowling green.

Having seen most of the club’s history evolve over the decades. Kim said, “this course now, what they're doing here with the grass greens and the voluntary labour, it is absolutely unbelievable.”

A popular character among the members, Kim will now have his name etched onto the hole in one board along with his other achievements in the club.