Kevin Cunningham
@asiantourgolf on X
A hole-in-one is without doubt one of the rarest and most sought-after feats in golf, with many novice gamers going their whole lives with out making one. For professional golfers, they aren’t fairly as particular as a result of they aren’t fairly as uncommon.
Once they occur in a event, nonetheless, they’re much more thrilling, given the cash and status up for grabs. However what if there was one thing extra on the road like, say, a home for somebody who desperately wants one?
That’s the state of affairs Bubba Watson discovered himself on this week. Watson, a two-time Masters winner who now performs for LIV Golf, is teeing it up on the Indonesian Masters, an Asian Tour occasion that’s a part of the Worldwide Sequence.
The par-3 eleventh gap on the event presents a particular charity prize. For anybody who aces it, Habitat for Humanity will donate a home to an Indonesian household in want.
Within the third spherical, Watson made it occur, smacking a wedge on the 154-yard gap and spinning it into the cup for a 1. Take a look at the shot under.
Watson’s response was considerably muted, whether or not from disbelief or from the truth that he couldn’t see the outlet from the elevated tee.
Regardless of as a result of it nonetheless counts, and one comfortable household will get a brand new dwelling because of the LIV Golf star.
And that was the one excellent news for Watson. Together with his ace, Watson shot a 65 and moved to 14 underneath for the week, ok for third place. Sadly, he’s a distant seven pictures off the lead with one spherical to play.
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Kevin Cunningham
Golf.com Editor
As managing producer for GOLF.com, Cunningham edits, writes and publishes tales on GOLF.com, and manages the model’s e-newsletters, which attain greater than 1.4 million subscribers every month. A former two-time intern, he additionally helps hold GOLF.com buzzing exterior the news-breaking tales and repair content material offered by our reporters and writers, and works with the tech crew within the improvement of recent merchandise and revolutionary methods to ship an interesting web site to our viewers.