Each Tuesday for three years, John Brough, Dave Cavalero, Dominick Monteleone and Mike Sheptak have kept a golf date together at different courses in the region.

The foursome's June 3 outing at Lakevue North Golf Course was like none before it, however.

Brough, 51, of Butler, recorded a double-eagle on the No. 17, 435-yard hole. After a tee shot of approximately 220 yards, he used a 5-wood to put the ball in the hole from 215 yards away.

"I didn't believe it when I saw the shot," Cavalero said. "I've been playing golf for 40 years now and that's the first (double-eagle) I ever saw.

"No. 17 is a two-tiered green there. The ball rolled about five feet past the cup, then rolled back down and went into the hole."

Brough couldn't believe it, either — and didn't believe it until he actually saw the ball in the hole.

"I was standing on the cart path when he hit it,"Monteleone said. "I didn't see it go in,but I knew it'd be close. I told him, 'You dirty rat, your ball is probably right at the pin, an easy tap-in for eagle.'

"As we approached the green and didn't see his ball, John said I lied to him, that the shot rolled off the green. He looked all over for it off the green, refusing to believe it could be in the hole."

But it was.

Brough has been golfing for 41 years and never had a hole-in-one, let along a double-eagle. He had his left arm amputated after a car accident in 1996.

Brough uses a prosthetic that clips onto the club, helping to steady it while he swings it with his right hand.

"The attachment locks in while I follow through with my right,"Brough said. "I have a little trouble with downhill or uphill lies because I can't really choke down on the club, but I hit the ball with pretty much the same power and distance I had before the accident.

"Better technology has helped, too. I'd probably be hitting the ball farther than I did before the accident, because of the better equipment."

He hit the ball plenty far enough on this day. He followed up the double-eagle with a birdie on No. 18 and shot a 76 for the round.

"I didn't have any birdies before No. 17 that day,"Brough recalled. "Then I go four-under for the last two holes ... I was headed for an 80 or 81, something like that."

Brough won the annual Amputee Open at Saxon Golf Course two years ago and finished second in the first flight of the 2004 Butler Eagle Amateur Open at Pheasant Ridge.

"It's unbelievable how well he plays golf,"Sheptak said. "John is sneaky long. He can play the game.

"It was overcast that day and the humidity was high. It (prosthetic) gets loose on him sometimes in conditions like that. He finds ways to overcome it. He's a great player."

Monteleone agreed.

"It was incredible watching somebody do that," he said of the double-eagle. "Those things are tougher to get than a hole-in-one. He hit both of those shots dead-on."

Sheptak had a hole-in-one on No. 17 at Hiland Golf Course back in 1970.

"This beats that — easily,"Sheptak said.

Brough couldn't believe it himself.

"Iwas never convinced the ball was in the hole until I saw it there," he said. "It happened. I just reacted. Never before, probably never again."

Maybe.

"John's an amazing guy,"Cavalero said. "For a one-armed golfer, he does a beautiful job out there.