Dad of Arizona student hit a 174-yard hole-in-one to win a brand new Ford F-150.
On April 28, Scottsdale, Arizona’s Saguaro High School‘s varsity football team held its annual golf fundraiser at the Scottsdale Silverado Golf Course. And while the venue may sport the name of a Chevy, one lucky parent drove home in a brand-new Ford F-150. According to AZ Central, team dad Eric Lee sunk a hole-in-one on the sixth hole, and that hole included a free truck for the first person to hit the cup from the tee. So, Lee actually drove home in the new half-ton pickup.
Saguaro Golf Outing
There are six par-3 holes on the Scottsdale Silverado Golf Course, with the distances ranging from 131 yards to 174 yards. The sixth hole is the longest of the short holes, and perhaps that was why Peoria Ford picked that hole to sponsor as part of the fundraiser. The dealership offered anyone who could get a hole-in-one a new F-150 for free, but with team coach Jason Mohns having never seen a hole-in-one in the fundraiser, the odds weren’t great.
That didn’t stop Eric Lee, dad of Saguaro junior Matthew Lee, from crushing the 174-yard tee shot and dropping a hole-in-one. He was the first person to hit a hole-in-one in the annual fundraiser while also being the first to win a new truck as part of the event.
The Free Truck
There are no details on the truck in question, but based on the features shown in the picture above, it appears to be a 2019 F-150 Lariat, likely with four-wheel-drive. However, even if it was a base F-150 with no options at all, it is still a sweet prize for hitting a hole-in-one in your son’s football fundraising golf tournament.
Lee drove home with a shiny new Ford truck, so he is likely pretty pleased with his son’s decision to play high school football now more than ever.
"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.
"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.
"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.
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"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.
