LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) – An insurance agent playing in a weekend golf tournament followed up his first hole-in-one with another one a day later.

On the same hole.

Using the same club.

“I’ve never even heard of such a thing,” said Jack North, managing director of the Rawls Course, where Danny Leake accomplished the feat.

Leake, 53, aced the sixth hole on Saturday with a 5-iron from 174 yards out. He aced the same hole with the same club from 178 yards out in Sunday’s final round.

Leake has a 14 handicap.

He was seeded in one of the tournament’s lowest flights, but quickly became the talk of the clubhouse.

“My 5-iron is becoming my favorite club,” Leake said. He said he was more than satisfied with his ace on Saturday and had no thought of repeating the gem.

“I’ll probably never hit another one as long as I live, but I’m OK with that,” he said.

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PARIS (AP) – Puritanism in Paris?

Worried about an excess of flesh visible on the banks of the River Seine, Paris City Hall has banned thong bikinis, topless sunbathing and nudity at the summer sand-in-the-city event known as Paris Beaches, Le Parisien newspaper reported Saturday.

Violators will be fined $48, the report said.

Thongs and bottom-only bikinis are common sights on France’s Mediterranean and Atlantic shores.

Paris was pushed to forbid “indecent attire” because it could “provoke temptation and dangerous behavior along the bank of a river,” Pascal Cherki, mayoral aide in charge of sports, was quoted as saying.

City officials responsible for Paris Beaches could not be reached for comment. It was unclear why the ban was only imposed this year, the fifth year of the popular event.

The monthlong event attracted 3.8 million people last year, and this year has pulled in many seeking relief from record heat.

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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) – Laurie-Ann Fuca is making history as the first Arizona woman to join the Army past her 40th birthday.

Fuca, a 41-year-old mother of four, was to leave for boot camp Monday – three weeks after her eldest son was sent to Iraq at age 19.

The Army recently raised its maximum recruiting age to 42.

“I’ve always wanted to be in the military for a long as I can remember, but I never had the opportunity because I was a full-time mom,” Fuca said.

Still, Fuca said her friends “laughed their heads off” when she told them of her enlistment.

“They said, “No way – not you!”‘ Fuca said as she prepared to pack her duffel bag for basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. “My son was like “You’re crazy. Moms don’t join the military,”‘ she said.

“I told him a lot of soldiers are somebody’s mom, and he said “Yeah, but you’re MY mom!”‘

Fuca’s husband was initially shocked at her plans.

“I said, “Honey, you can’t even watch a war movie on TV. What are you going to do in the Army?”‘ said Vinnie Fuca, 49.

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