Vernon golfer records rare par-4 ace on home course<\/p>\n
Published 9:00 pm Friday, August 28, 2026<\/p>\n
It was a very happy 21st birthday for Zack Casagrande.<\/p>\n
And a bit of a costly one.<\/p>\n
The Vernon Golf and Country Club pro shop employee\u2019s first-ever hole-in-one \u2013 at the very course he works \u2013 came on the Trail Tire Shotgun Start Men\u2019s Day event Wednesday, Aug. 26, the day before his birthday.<\/p>\n
After the round, Casagrande carried on golf\u2019s long-standing tradition of buying beverages \u2013 in this case, a jug of beer for each group in the clubhouse \u2013 after firing an ace.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not sure what the damage was to my wallet,\u201d laughed Casagrande on Thursday, Aug. 27. \u201cI had a few hours of sleep and made it to work for 6 a.m.\u201d<\/p>\n
Making the rare feat even more special is that Casagrande recorded the hole-in-one on a par 4, the 300-yard (from the back gold tees) 11th hole.<\/p>\n
Playing with Brooks Jones, Spencer Hornoi, and Bob Bennett, the right-handed Casagrande was the last to hit on that hole, which had also brought to the tee box the foursome behind them.<\/p>\n
Seven people witnessed Casagrande take out his Taylor Made Q.I. 10 driver, and blast his Titleist Pro V1 golf ball right down the middle of the fairway toward the pin 300 yards away.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the guys thought I went long, over the green,\u201d said Casagrande, who spent the spring and early part of summer playing box lacrosse as a scoring sniper for the North Okanagan Reapers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got up to the green and went looking beyond the hole for the ball but couldn\u2019t find it. It was Bob who went and looked in the hole and found my ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember freaking out but that\u2019s about it. I kind of blacked out after that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The tournament\u2019s format for that day was that every player played their own ball, but the group put down the best score. The quartet was thrilled to mark down a one on their scorecard.<\/p>\n
For Casagrande, the first-ever hole-in-one comes after being close to the feat \u201clot of times,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But doing it on a par-4, and using a driver?<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never thought to do that, and never thought I\u2019d get an ace,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vernon golfer records rare par-4 ace on home course Published 9:00 pm Friday, August 28, 2026 It was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-876157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}