It’s an adventurous story about local golfer Paul Dutcher, who just arrived, sliding under my front door. Paul was the Little River Men’s Club Handicap champion in last year’s competition. Paul and his wife have been in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, visiting with his wife’s sisters for the past month. They are staying in an RV park. On a recent rainy morning, Paul was walking their dogs when he came upon a readable but soggy lottery ticket. Paul turned the ticket in. It was a $100.00 winner. He bought another similar ticket and won another $100.00. Then Paul purchased a $20.00 and $30.00 ticket and won another $100.00. Pocketing his winnings, Paul decided to try his luck on a nearby golf course, the Heritage Country Club. He described the course as challenging, reminding him of some of the Little River Inn’s challenging holes. Paul arrived at the 3rd hole with a 157-yard par three. The tee was slightly elevated. You had to carry the ball over a pond to a large green protected left and right with sand traps.
“My tee shot looked nice.”, Paul said, “but in the morning sky, playing a white ball, and playing alone, I could not see where the ball stopped.” Fortunately, a groundskeeper was nearby, and as Paul approached, the greenskeeper pointed towards the back of the green. Now, on the green, Paul saw nothing. Walking towards the back, Paul glanced in the hole, and his ball was proudly waiting for him. A hole-in-one. On Paul’s first. He mentioned it took fifty years to happen. At the round end, Paul bought the groundskeeper a beer. A few days later, Paul received a text from his older brother, who lives in Spokane, Washington. His brother texted that he didn’t want to brag, but the night before, while playing in a golf league event, he got his first hole-in-one. Paul said, “What are the odds of two brothers hitting their first hole-in-one in the same week?” Better go to Reno on your way home, Paul. Paul will be back on the coast on June 30th.
Last week, it was reported that Chuck Allegrini had a sixty-plus round Carlson going. A Carson is playing a round without getting a double bogie. That is so wrong. Chuck’s record was sixty-plus holes, not golf rounds. Holy banana pancakes, sixty rounds would be 1,080 holes. Chuck is not there yet, but as of last Friday, June 14th, Chuck scraped his way to completing one hundred and twenty-six holes without scoring a double bogie. Excellent work if you can get it. Congratulations Chuck.
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