This week we are going to have a change of pace for this story is just too crazy not to share. Maybe you've heard about it already.
This happened during a Member-Member outing at a club just outside of St Louis. Well, here's the full story from MyGolfSpy - Link. I have the main part below...
Zach Holland, a 2-handicap who played college golf at the NAIA level, was forced to resign his membership after faking a hole-in-one on the fourth hole of the event.
Playing in the first group off in the tournament, Holland’s round began normally. His group played the first three holes together.
But as the group was finishing the third hole, Holland told them he needed to take a phone call concerning his terminally ill grandmother. He had mentioned on the first tee there was a possibility this could happen.
To keep up with the pace of play, Holland went up and hit his tee shot at the par-3 fourth prior to his group getting there. Then he took the brief phone call before reuniting with his group at the green.
When he got to the green, Holland said he told his partners that he thinned his tee shot but did not see where the ball ended up.
The group then found the ball in the cup, assumed Holland made a hole-in-one and everyone went crazy.
It was believable enough, right? Holland is a good player and making a hole-in-one is a reasonable thing that could have happened.
But with significant money on the line in the form of a “hole-in-one pot”—and the fact Holland made the ace without witnesses—everyone involved was a little suspicious. Holland kept up the charade, insisting he made the hole-in-one. His group had discovered the ball in the hole together, after all.
No worries, there are security cameras! The superintendent grabbed the footage and the debate would be settled in short order.
Uh-oh. That was not good news for Holland.
The footage showed Holland parked his car near the fourth green an hour before his tee time. He had manually created a ball mark, placed the ball in the hole and then driven back to the clubhouse.
The jig was up. He immediately owned up to the scheme and resigned his membership.
