Jimmy Rollins is the big winner at the American Century Championship on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Though he\u2019s well out of contention at the annual celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Nevada, he did claim a brand new boat after hitting his first career hole-in-one.<\/p>\n
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Rollins absolutely stuck his drive at the par-3 12th on Saturday and rolled his ball back into the cup for an ace. Naturally, that sparked a huge celebration on the tee. Rollins even ran up and tried to jump into the boat.<\/p>\n
Rollins finished the day in T45, well back of the leaders Joe Pavelski and Taylor Twellman. Those two were sitting at 44 in the tournament, which uses a modified Stableford format, entering the final day. Country singer Jake Owen was three shots back.<\/p>\n
Rollins played in Major League Baseball for 17 seasons, most of which were spent with the Philadelphia Phillies. The three-time All-Star and former MVP helped lead the franchise to their win in the 2008 World Series, too. After 15 years with the team, he played a season each with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox before retiring after the 2016 campaign. He finished with a career batting average of .264 with 231 home runs.<\/p>\n
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Thanks to Rollins, there has now been an ace in three straight years at the American Century Championship. Former Raiders wide receiver Tim Brown hit one last year to win a boat, and Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry did the same in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Rollins is the big winner at the American Century Championship on Saturday afternoon. Though he\u2019s well out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[3782,2318,5857,2243,427,5856,5858,2323,480,99,2244,5859],"class_list":["post-5366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-american-century-championship","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-edgewood-tahoe-golf-course","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-golf","tag-jimmy-rollins","tag-joe-pavelski","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports","tag-stephen-curry","tag-taylor-twellman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}