Playing a pro tournament at Otter Creek years ago the ace fund was $5 to enter. Someone donated 4 tickets to Church Hill Downs and that was added to the ace fund also. So the first ace was to get $130 plus the 4 tickets.
Holes 9, 10, 11 & 12 were known as "deuce alley". You could stand on any tee pad, by any basket or in the middle of any of those 4 fairways and see all four holes from tee to basket. They were short and compacted into a small area.
I was on 10s tee, about 60' from 9s basket, getting ready to make my shot when "Bam"!, a local in the group behind us aced #9. The noise interrupted my 30 seconds, so I regrouped and "Bam!" my aviar smacks into hole #10. Less than 60 seconds after the first ace of the day, and he was in the ace fund. :wall:
I jumped off the tee, threw my hat on the ground and said, "I can't believe I missed $130 by 1 minute"!
After the round and when the TD heard the story a decision was made to split the money between the two of us but the local got the tickets, which I was cool with. So I got $65 for that ace.