AMillicent golfer achieved every player’s dream on Saturday with a hole in one at the Mount Burr Golf Course.


The name Ron Hateley will now adorn the honour board of the Millicent Golf Club at the 63-year-old course for the second time.


His name is already on the board for a hole in one in 2023, and also for being a past president of the Millicent Golf Club.


Now retired after co-owning a Millicent accountancy practice, Hateley was better known as a footballer.


After 216 games for SANFL club South Adelaide and four state games between 1973 and 1984, Hateley returned to his home club of Tantanoola.


He was the captain-coach of the Tigers’ premiership team in 1996 and was later present of the Mid South Eastern Junior Football League.


As a coincidence, it was almost 10 years to the day that his playing partner Mark Pilmore had scored a hole in one at that course.


Pilmore is the current Millicent Golf Club president and he aced the fifth hole which is a par three.


Pilmore is a regular mid-week and weekend golfer but is perhaps better known in the local sporting world as the non-playing assistant coach of the last Tantanoola Football Club premiership team in 2006.


Prior to coming to the SE from Adelaide to run the Tiger Hotel at Tantanoola, Pilmore played A Grade district cricket and SANFL football with West Torrens.


In recent years, Pilmore has operated the canteen at the Kimberly-Clark Australia Millicent Mill and then ran Acky’s Deli in Millicent.


His late father Maurice had scored a hole in one at the prestigious Grange Golf Club in suburban Adelaide while his son Matt joined the elite ranks of golfer with an ace at the public and nearby Patawalonga Golf Course.