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Bob Karr picked an opportune time to make his first-ever hole-in-one.
With a new Chevy Silverado offered as a prize for any golfer who could ace the 169-yard fifth hole at The Duke at Rancho El Dorado during Saturday's Maricopa Rams Football Golf Tournament, Karr hit his tee shot squarely with an 8-iron. He immediately thought that it had a chance.
"You never know if it is going to go in, but it looked like it was right at the pin," said Karr, a 60-year-old Scottsdale resident. "It looked like it would be a good shot on the green. It bounced, and then it bounced a second time, and then it rolled a little bit and just disappeared. It fell in the hole."
The thrill for Karr was twofold, as he realized that not only had he just converted the initial ace of his long golfing career, but also that he would be receiving a $39,000 truck as a reward, courtesy of hole-in-one sponsor Henry Brown Automotive of Casa Grande.
"How sweet is that?" Karr said.
Chris Guerrero, general manager of the Henry Brown Chevrolet dealership, said that the company has provided hole-in-one sponsorships at numerous community events. "But this is the first one where a person actually won the vehicle," he said.
Guerrero said the dealership is more than happy to award the 2010 Chevy Silverado Extended Cab to Karr.
"We are probably just as excited as the winner is," Guerrero said. "We have a huge customer base in Maricopa. We like to get involved in community-sponsored events. This was a really good cause for the Maricopa High School football team. When this gentleman won, it made it that much more exciting."
The event attracted 21 hole sponsors, along with two hole-in-one sponsors - Henry Brown Automotive and Glenn Jones Ford, a Casa Grande dealership which offered a 2010 Ford Focus as a prize.
A Golf Digest article from March 2000 estimates the odds of a golfer acing a designated hole during a single round at 20,000-to-1. While nobody beat the odds on Saturday to win the Ford Focus, Karr was looking forward to picking up his new Chevy Silverado from Henry Brown Automotive.
"The tournament was just wonderful," Karr said Monday. "I was just ecstatic. I'm still on cloud nine."