Golling's Sponsors Moss Creek - Trotwood Chamber of Commerce Golf Scramble

I'm not much of a golfer...ok, I've never played golf, but I had a great time monitoring hole 17 during the Trotwood Chamber of Commerce annual Golf Scramble last Saturday. We sponsor this hole every year. If a player in the scramble gets a hole-in-one at this hole, he/she would have received (this year) a 2013 Dodge Dart, a Kindle Fire, and a $500 Visa Gift Card (and, of course, bragging rights). As of Saturday, September 15, 2012, in the history of Moss Creek Golf Course, no one had every gotten a hole-in-one on hole #17. I don't know what has happened since then, but no one got a hole-in-one on that day. (Good for me, because I drove the Dart there and would have had to hitch a ride home.)

The Golling's Arena Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Golf Team tied for 1st! This is Dan, our fearless leader!

 

To win the contest, each player had to tee off from the 165 yard mark. Many of the players had their own portable GPS devices that were usually about 3 yards off from our own calculation. Women could shoot from 150 yards. The hole itself had an intimidating body of water directly in front of it. Kind of odd b/c what really mattered was that could it the ball 150-165 yards in one shot...whether or not the water was there really didn't make a difference (its not like you got two strokes).

One thing I noticed that day is that golf team members are very encouraging among each other. Everyone seemed to have a great time, whether they had played for 30 years or 3 weeks. Many of teams gave us permission to add their photos to our blog. 

The Scramble took about 4 hours. The teams were scattered through out the course so that no one was waiting around. 

I also took at very unofficial poll and asked all the participants if they'd every had a hole-in-one and how long they played golf. The results were interesting.  

Out of 41 people polled, they had about 843 total years of recreational golf experience. The average number of years was 20.56 years. The least experience was zero years. The most experience was 51 years. 6 (14.63%) had one hole-in-one in all their years of playing. None of them had more than one. Those that had a hole-in-one had played 40 years, 27 years, 18 years, 16 years, 15 years and 15 years. They all knew exactly what course and hole they were on when they shot their hole-in-one.

A big thanks goes out to Moss Creek for sponsoring the event and all the golfers for making out so early on a chilly September Saturday morning! We'll be there next year!