An elderly golfer who prevented a teenager from committing suicide went on to score his first hole-in-one in 20 years of playing.

Andrey Weller, 70, believes the "good karma" he got from preventing the teenager leaping 300ft from cliffs at Seaford Head golf course enabled him to hole the miraculous shot.

Incredibly, the very next day Mr Weller scored a second hole-in-one on the same course.

The pensioner, from Lower Dicker, near Hailsham, scored his first hole-in-one two days after saving the teenager from leaping off the treacherous drop.

He said: "We were just teeing off on the 18th at Seaford and we could see this lad sitting on the cliff edge in the distance.

"Me and my playing partners decided to play our shots and then walk over to him.

"Once we got down there we could see his legs were dangling over the cliff and he had a big bottle of vodka which was nearly empty.

"Me and Ron Rose, one of my golfing buddies, asked him if he was okay and he mumbled back that he was.

"But he was obviously very troubled and he told us he had some big problems in his life and that he intended to jump.

"Ron kneeled down next to him while I went around to his back, laid down and grabbed the back of his anorak so that if he did try to jump I'd have him.

"After a while police officers arrived and by this time the lad was slumped over because he'd drunk so much and wasn't responding to being talked to.

"So we all looked at each other and two of the police officers went around to his sides and I was still round the back and we all pulled him back from the edge.

"We ended up in a big heap about ten metres back and this lad had his head in my lap. I just looked at him and said: "You're all right now mate".

"The police thanked me afterwards and gave me a bit of a pat on the back."

Two days later Mr Weller was playing at the same course and scored the hole in one - his first ever on the par three twelfth hole and followed it up a day later with another on the par three eighth hole.

The 70 year-old said: "The golfing gods were certainly smiling on me those days.

"You could say it was good karma, that's the term they use I believe.

"It's certainly cost me a fair bit in the pub and I've got a bit of ribbing from my mates."

Mr Weller's luck seems to have come to an end now though. He bought a lottery ticket the following weekend in the hope his streak of fortune would continue but he failed to match a single number.

He said: "It had to come to an end at some point I suppose."