As Hayes Shepard ripped the ball off the No. 3 tee box on the Marshwood course at Highland Oaks in Dothan on Sunday afternoon, a foursome of golfers were still
“Tim Price was putting and the flag was out,” said Emory Latta, who was on the green. “The pin placement is kind of on the front of the green on 3.
People are also reading… Jeff Andrews, the golf superintendent at Highland Oaks for the past 15 years, can’t recall another hole-in-one on a par 4 on the course, which is part of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail.Shepard, a 22-year-old from Dothan, certainly didn’t believe he would drive the green when he lined up for the tee shot. Shepard was hitting from the orange tees, which were placed 311 yards away from the green on this day.
“Then everybody on the green just threw their hands up and started cheering and yelling, ‘Hole-in-one’ so we would know it went in.”On the green with Latta and Price were Phillip Skipper and John Hammer. In the foursome with Shepard were Ryan Watson, Blake Turner and Dicky Turner.“It was a big draw and it just hit the hill right and rolled onto the green,” Shepard described. “Since they were putting, the flag stick was out.
“It actually hit off of the green and rolled back about 35 yards into the hole,” Shepard said of his first ace. “It was a pretty cool one to see, too … we saw that one go in.”
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