Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
Four contestants aced their shots during the Cardinal Center's $1 Million Shoot Out qualification rounds July 13-15.
Can they, or any of the other 37 finalists, do it again Sunday afternoon?
At Little Big Horn Golf Course, Wynn Warren hit the perfect shot at a ball in the hole 90 yards away. Bill Meyer and George Branscome at Swan Lake Golf Course and Beth Petrosky at Tippecanoe Lake Country Club each had a hole-in-one during the July 13-15 first rounds. They each won $50 for their accomplishment.
The final round of the third annual event will take place at Stonehenge Golf Course with qualifiers teeing up at 4 p.m.
The final competition hole is set at 125 yards. A hole-in-one pays $1 million over 30 years, split equally between the golfer and the Cardinal Center.
Two $15,000 jackpot holes also will be near the $1 million hole.
Qualification rounds were held on the driving ranges of seven golf courses: Little Big Horn, Old Road 30; Raccoon Run in Winona Lake; Rozella Ford, Warsaw; South Shore, Syracuse; Sprig-O-Mint, Bremen; Swan Lake, Plymouth; and Lake Tippecanoe Country Club, near Leesburg.
The Cardinal Center is a not-for-profit human service organization providing services to people with disabilities in Kosciusko, Marshall, Cass, Fulton, Carroll and surrounding counties in Indiana.
R.R. Donnelley and Sons Co. has been the premier sponsor of the hole-in-one event for the last three years. In addition to providing $5,000 to help cover some event expenses, nearly 100 Donnelley employees volunteered their time to help during qualifying competiton.
Listed in closest-to-the-pin order below are the top five qualifiers and the first and second alternates at each round.
If any one of the first five golfers cannot participate, an alternate will be called.
Little Bighorn - Wynn Warren, Syracuse; Bob Strombock, Leesburg; John Howard, Pierceton; Kenneth Linn, Eaton; Terry Shumpert, Leesburg; Gary Zimmerman, North Manchester, first alternate; and Joe Saggars, Ligonier, second alternate.
Raccoon Run - William Hathaway, Brian Beam, Wayne Nicola and Steve Hollar, all of Warsaw; Brian Turek, Winona Lake; Greg Glowe, Warsaw, first alternate; and Donald Morris, Claypool, second alternate.
Rozella Ford - Betty L. White, Warsaw; Larry Zilm, Granger; Bob Clark, Bourbon; Fred Friedman, Winona Lake; Jeff Wagner, Warsaw; Todd Dawson, Warsaw, first alternate; and Josh Gsell, Winona Lake, second alternate.
South Shore - Bob Kukura, Poland, Ohio; Mike Hope, Indianapolis; Stu Wysong, Leesburg; Jason Ross, North Webster; Harlan Wuthrich, Milford; Steve Coverstone, North Webster, first alternate; and Kenneth W. Miller, Goshen, second alternate.
Swan Lake - Bill Meyer, Plymouth; George Branscome, Portage; Bob Prentkowski, North Liberty; Shawn Forsythe and Bob Dunn, both of Plymouth; Ken Krenger, Chicago, Ill., first alternate; and Tom Kuhl, South Bend, second alternate.
Sprig-O-Mint - Tom Blain, Elkhart; Kyle Pletcher, Walkerton; Rick Rutkowski, Bremen; Robert Forsythe, Plymouth; Lon Kipfer, Bremen; Sean Hunter, Downers Grove, Ill., first alternate; and Trae Holmes, South Bend, second alternate.
Tippecanoe Lake - Beth Petrosky, Akron; Allan Rucka, Winona Lake; Rodney Hartley, North Webster; Ron Forks, Warsaw; Bob Kissell, Leesburg; Casey Weade, Syracuse, first alternate; and Marcia McNagny, Columbia City, second alternate.
Sponsor - John Ganyard, Warsaw, and Richard Borrow, North Liberty, first alternate.
Media - Teresa Smith, Warsaw, and Jeremy Taylor, Goshen, first alternate.
