Chance to Scramble for a million
By Don Brennan, Ottawa Sun
Local golf’s version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire will once again help get the ball rolling for Ottawa Sun Scramble City Championship Week.
Nine people who are 19 and over — at least three of whom will be selected from the general public admitted free to the event — will get a chance to strike it rich by acing a 165-yard hole at Falcon Ridge Aug. 5.
If lightning hits more than once, then there will be multiple millionaires going home from the course. And while no winner has claimed the jackpot in six years, there has been a close call.
“In the second year we had it at Eagle Creek, and a lady who won her spot through the Sun had no experience,” remembered tournament director Karl Parks. “She took a one-hour lesson from (then-head pro) Darryl Lepage, then hit a shot that missed the pin by six inches, it rolled two feet past the cup. That’s the closest we’ve had.”
A putting contest ($5 donation to Make-A-Wish for a ticket in a draw that gives the winner a 65-foot shot at $5,000), discounted buckets of balls (any size for a $2 donation), a chipping contest and a ‘Trick Shot And Skills Clinic’ put on by the CPGA’s Colin Orr will also be part of the Royal Oak Kick-Off Day at Falcon Ridge, as will a Tommy & Lefebvre “9 and Dine,” plus morning and afternoon Slammer Tour Events sandwiched around the Regimbal Media Challenge.
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