{"id":89561,"date":"2025-08-17T13:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/89561\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:04:07","slug":"akshay-bhatia-wins-car-with-hole-in-one-at-bmw-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/89561\/","title":{"rendered":"Akshay Bhatia wins car with hole-in-one at BMW Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aug 16, 2025, 03:35 PM ET<\/p>\n

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Akshay Bhatia<\/a> made an ace<\/a> on the 17th hole of the BMW Championship on Saturday, winning a car and boosting his chances of qualifying for the Tour Championship next week.<\/p>\n

The top 30 in the FedEx Cup advance to the Tour Championship, and Bhatia is right on the bubble, having entered this event in 29th. His hole-in-one came on an intimidating 227-yard par-3 with an elevated tee and water to the right of the green. The pin was toward the front of the green, with a bunker to the left.<\/p>\n

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The ace earned Bhatia the BMW iX M70 on display next to the 17th tee. It also means $125,000 will go from BMW to the Evans Scholars Foundation, which oversees a scholarship program for caddies.<\/p>\n

“I don’t really necessarily need a new car. I’m pretty happy with what I’ve got,” 23-year-old Bhatia said. “I think either I’ll give it to my caddie or figure something out to where I can donate it to charity or something.”<\/p>\n

Bhatia shot a 5-over 75 in the first round Thursday, leaving him 13 strokes behind the leader. But he shot a third-round 66 on Saturday, holing out a sand wedge from 93 yards for an eagle on the par-4 seventh. When his 5-iron on No. 17 rolled into the hole, it moved him to even par for the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 16, 2025, 03:35 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Akshay Bhatia made an ace on the 17th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-89561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89561","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=89561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}