{"id":21680,"date":"2016-07-04T14:29:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T14:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/winner-of-bmw-and-10000-for-holes-in-one-in-consecutive-years\/"},"modified":"2016-07-04T14:29:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T14:29:30","slug":"winner-of-bmw-and-10000-for-holes-in-one-in-consecutive-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/winner-of-bmw-and-10000-for-holes-in-one-in-consecutive-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner of BMW and $10,000 for holes-in-one in consecutive years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is no doubt that Mike Petrozelli is a lucky man. He describes himself as a normal golfer \u2013 one of many \u2013 but he is far from ordinary, at least when it comes to his accuracy on par-3 holes. Last year, the American won a BMW 320i when he scored a hole-in-one in a tournament for invited VIPs, and this year he won $10,000 and a day of free shopping thanks to an ace on another par-3 hole. \u201cThey might have to ban me from playing in these competitions,\u201d he joked. Petrozelli admits to being an average golfer, with rounds in the high 80s and low 90s. <\/p>\n

His $10,000 ace came when he was playing a scramble-format round with his brother-in-law, during which they carded two eagles on the front nine. Petrozelli scored his ace on a 166-yard par-3 \u2013 using a Ping 5-iron and a Titleist Pro V ball. His ball bounced and rolled directly to the hole. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy, that\u2019s my fourth hole-in-one, and the most recent two have been on prize holes. I\u2019m good at hitting the greens.\u201d <\/p>\n

His latest ace was the only one he saw clearly enter the hole. \\\u201dIt was unbelievable.\u201d <\/p>\n

The tournament had another prize, a Honda car, for anyone carding a hole-in-one on a second par-3. \u201cI hit the ball on the green and was almost afraid it would go in.\u201d <\/p>\n

Petrozelli\u2019s good fortune is not limited to golf: a few years ago he won $10,000 in a lottery.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}