His first was two years ago at the Brentwood Golf Club.Less than three weeks later, on April 14, Foster struck again, from more than double the distance, with the longest club in his bag, for the rarest of aces: On a par-4 hole. He launched his Titleist GT2 driver at a Kirkland ball from 267 yards on the 17th hole at the Jacksonville Beach Golf Club and watched it land on the green. He didn't see it go into the hole and, like most golfers, initially thought the worst.

He and playing partner Robert Holmes started looking behind the green because Foster had flushed it, with a slight wind to their back. “I thought the ball was probably going to go over the green because it hit [the green] midway,” he said. “We checked the back side, checked the front, checked every other place and then checked the hole and it was there.” There it was, nestled in the cup.Here’s how much Foster is beating the odds: The National Hole In One Registry estimates a 10-handicap player (Foster is a 10.5) making a hole-in-one on a par-3 hole is 5,000-to-1.

The odds of making an ace on a par-4 hole are 6 million-to-1. But let’s talk more about odds. Let’s talk about the odds that a 5-year-old with Attention Deficit Disorder would gravitate to the slowest-paced of all sports, and how it changed his life.Golf has ‘transformed’ Josiah Foster There’s more to Josiah Foster’s story than a couple of fortunate swings.

That he’s playing golf at all still surprises his parents, Jason and MaryAnn Foster, who struggled to find an activity that would hold their only child's interest."He tried other sports ... flag football, basketball," said Jason Foster, a native of Ames, Iowa, who is a civilian electrician for the Navy and works on Sikorsky H-60 helicopters at Mayport. "Team sports seemed to distract him."Golf, a solitary, pastoral pursuit, was different.“Golf has transformed him,” said MaryAnn Foster, a native of Texas who worked for Communities in Schools for 21 years before leaving to homeschool Josiah. “When he started playing in tournaments at the First Tee [at the Brentwood Golf Club] Josiah was calm, focused, and disciplined.

He didn't get frustrated about bad shots. I kept asking myself, ‘Who is this child?’ We really believe God has used golf in his life. It’s his safe place.” Josiah isn’t quite sure he can pinpoint what he likes most about golf.

Is it being outside, walking, challenge of hitting different shots under different conditions, or the emphasis on sportsmanship and decorum?It's a combination of all of the above, but he doesn’t try to overthink it. “Golf calms me down,” he said. “Give all the credit to Jesus.

He blessed me with this sport.” Watching golf on TV was the family’s first clue It was an early fall Sunday afternoon and Jason Foster was trying to find something to watch with his 4-year-old son ... something that would hold his interest for longer than a few minutes. Football? Basketball?

No to both. After a few plays, Josiah would stop watching and fidget. Jason Foster finally turned to the Golf Channel, where one of the PGA Tour’s Fall events was being aired.

Josiah stopped squirming and watched. And watched. And kept watching. Observing this were his parents, who were amazed that a sedate sport such as golf was capturing their son’s undivided attention.

"I didn't grow up with golf," Jason Foster said. "Golf, to me, was the background for a Sunday afternoon nap. The commentators are always calm and soothing.

Maybe that's what got Josiah's attention. But he sat there and watched for hours."Whenever the family would go to a restaurant that had TVs, Josiah would look for the TV with a golf telecast and insist the family sit near it.“He was glued to golf on TV,” MaryAnn Foster said. “Of all the sports, golf was the only one he would stop and watch.” Josiah Foster said the notion that golf is slow on TV depends on perspective.

“After a few plays of football, it all looks the same,” he said. “Someone is throwing or running with the ball. Basketball is the same.

It’s just passing and shooting. But golf was different. On TV it would switch to different players, who were on different parts of the golf course, hitting different shots.” It wasn’t long before Josiah wanted to try playing golf.

His parents bought the obligatory set of plastic clubs, but that didn’t last long. Josiah wanted real clubs, on a real golf course. Josiah Foster learned golf at First Tee When Josiah quickly outgrew his plastic clubs, his mother signed him up for lessons at the First Tee facility at the Brentwood Golf Club. When First Tee instructor Susan Waite was working with MaryAnn Foster on filling out the paperwo