By John RittenhouseWeekend play at the Luverne Country Club featured the first aces of their career for a pair of Luverne men.Gary Kurtz recorded the first ace of the weekend while playing in a Couples Golf Scrambler Friday night.Pete Connell recorded a hole in one while playing a round with friends on Sunday.Kurtz was playing his third hole of the night during the scrambler when he stepped up to the tee box on the par-3 seventh hole.Selecting an 8-iron, he struck a shot that bounced six feet in front of the pin, which was located near the front of the green.The ball bounced and headed for the pin, but Kurtz, his wife, Tami, and playing partners Amy Vande Voort and Virgil Van Hulzen did not see the ball enter the cup."I knew it was close, but I didn’t see it go in," Kurtz admitted. "I thought it might have rolled off the green, but we couldn’t find the ball when we looked around the green. Then we looked in the cup, and there it was."Kurtz said the hole was playing at 157 yards when he recorded his ace.Connell, a Minnesota State University-Mankato student who is spending his summer break at home in Luverne, aced the LCC’s par-3 third hole on Sunday.Connell, Travis Johnson, Marcus Walgrave and Ryan Schultz were playing the third hole of their first round of the day early Sunday afternoon when he recorded his first hole in one.The former Luverne High School player used his 8-iron to ace the hole, which was playing somewhere between 160 and 165 yards that day."The ball hit the fringe in front of the green, took one bounce and dropped into the hole," Connell said. "It didn’t even roll. "We all kind of looked at each other, and I asked if the ball went in the hole. It was kind of funny."Connell and Kurtz join Mike Lammert as members to ace holes at the LCC this season.