THE LAST WORD:

If you heard something miraculous had happened on the eighth hole at the Newport Beach Country Club, what’s the first thing that would pop into mind?

Certainly, if you are familiar with the course — and thanks to the annual Toshiba Classic golf tournament, we all have been able to get to know it — you’d think there had been one, maybe even two holes-in-one hit on the long par 3.

But something even more remarkable happened last month. (And a Golf Digest article calculated the odds of two players making an ace on the same hole at 17 million to one.)

A golfer on the hole suffered a massive heart attack, and club pro Paul Hahn raced out to the hole with the country club’s defibrillator and helped revive the man, who wasn’t breathing when Hahn and others arrived.

Officials say that while CPR and the use of defibrillators can help save heart-attack victims’ lives, often when experts aren’t there the chances of success are slim.

But Hahn, who had been taught how to use the machine in January, beat those odds by a long shot.

It was lucky for the victim, who has since recovered, that apparently Hahn hadn’t already used up all his luck on that hole. Or maybe he’s in for a run of good fortune?