Saturday, July 25, 2009

Right On Target

When Arjun Atwal stepped on to the 15th tee at Glen Abbey, there was very little that could cheer him up. Reasons for that were plenty-- yet to make the cut on his comeback trail, stuck in the bottom rungs of the leaderboard in Ontario and a playing partner who was setting the pace at the rain-hit Canadian Open.

Starting his second round from the 10th, he needed a run of birdies to spend two more days north of the American border. As he walked off the 15th green, he was still searching for his first birdie, with the additional burden of lugging around a brand-new BMW Z4 Roadster through the rest of the round. That was courtesy his hole-in-one on the 132-yard 15th, the first ace on the hole in over 25 years of the Canadian Open.

A perfect drive, Mr Atwal

Arjun followed it up with three birdies on the run later in his round and looks like he will be in contention on the weekend, provided he does no worse than a par on the last hole. For that, he will have to wait till Saturday morning.

PGA Tour's Bob Stevens, following Arjun's group for Martin Laird's sake, filed this note on his hole-in-one-:

Arjun Atwal came out of nowhere to ace the 132-yard, par-3 15th at Glen Abbey. He threw his tee shot just over the flagstick and spun it off the backboard, which set it up to trickle back down the slope and into the cup. Atwal didn't appear to know he'd won the car until its "keeper" came out and told him. Arjun climbed inside his new ride for a few photos before walking up the hill to pull the ball out of the cup. His wife was following all the action and told me she'd be in charge of the car's future.

Now we wonder if he could exchange his BMW for PGA Tour earnings to move up the money list. Not a bad idea we think!

Posted by: 'hopper
 

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