SOMETIMES, HITTING A hole in one ensures you’ve to buy a round of drinks at the 19th hole. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, the prize might be a holiday or a car.
Today, on the 15th hole of the KLM Dutch Open, England’s Andy Sullivan won a prize that’s out of this world.
By acing the par three, Sullivan has won the $100,000 prize of a trip into space aboard the Lynx Mark 1 operated by XCOR Aerospace.
The company’s website describes the spacecraft as: “A two-seat, piloted space transport vehicle will take humans and payloads on a half-hour suborbital flight to 100 km (330,000 feet) and then return to a landing at the takeoff runway.”
A replica model of the Lynx has been stationed beside the 15th tee-box all week.
Sullivan’s compatriot Paul Casey still leads the tournament on -15, three shots ahead of the future astronaut and Simon Dyson.
Corey has to stay. He’s got more out of that bunch of players than most could. They play great brand of football also.