Hilton Head Resident Wins Touchstone Energy Hole-in-One Shootout

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by GolfIsland:: Mon 1 Jun 2009:: 1:17 pm

On Saturday, 28 golfers competed in the Touchstone Energy Million Dollar Hole-in-One Shootout at Old South Golf Links. Jon Piccione, a Hilton Head Island amateur golfer, won the contest but not the million dollars.

Piccione, swinging a 6-iron, knocked the ball to 12 feet, 7 inches, which was good enough to win the Shootout and earn him the grand prize of $1,000 cash and a trip to Las Vegas to play in a pro-am event. After the contest, he couldn’t help but wonder what might have happened if he had used a 7-iron.

About his winning shot, Piccione said “I hit a 6-iron and teed it up a little higher, because I was planning for a mis-hit, but I hit it as pure as I could hit it.”

Piccione was not the only golfer with an impressive shot on Saturday. Here are the top 5 finishers:
Jon Piccione 12 feet, 7 inches
Jon Pannone 17 feet, 7 inches
Clayton Brown 27 feet, 9 inches
Ted Morris 29 feet, 11 inches
Gary Caron 33 feet, 8 inches


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