GORDON—The Shaun Assinewai team took the first-place championship at the annual four-person string tournament held at Manitoulin Golf this past Saturday. However, the highlight of the 18-hole tournament was the hole-in-one notched by one of the participating players.
Cory Croft garnered his first ever hole-in-one off the red tees during his teams back nine. The second hole measures 161 yards from the red tees. Mr. Croft told The Expositor he used his “six-iron on the shot. It was a straight shot.” None of the members of his team actually saw the ball go in the hole, so at first no one was aware he had a hole-in-one.
Mr. Croft’s sister Shelley explained one of the members of the team had hit their tee shot to the back of the green so everyone thought that must have been Cory’s shot. That is until she went to the hole and found the ball in the bottom of the cup. “I was more excited than Cory was and I gave him a high five.”
The tournament drew a total of 10 teams. After a fabulous dinner Cheryl Deeg, clubhouse manager handed out the prizes. “First of all, I would like to congratulate Cory for getting a hole-in-one. And I would like to thank all of you for coming out to play in the tournament.”
Taking first place in the first flight was the team made up of Shaun Assinewai, Garret McCumber and Stan and Trevor Esquimaux. They posted an 18-hole score of 49 (23 under par).
In the second flight the team of Jordie Armstrong, Shelley Croft, Cory Croft and Keith Rogerson were in first place with a score of 56. They actually tied for first place but were declared the winners having used up the least amount of string during the tournament. All teams received the same amount of string at the start of play and could use it, for example, if they were two feet from the cup on the green and didn’t want to use up another stroke—they could measure off and cut off two feet of string that they had been provided to play in the tournament.
