{"id":248576,"date":"2017-03-20T06:02:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T20:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=248576"},"modified":"2017-03-20T06:02:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T20:02:54","slug":"senior-golfer-hits-hole-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/senior-golfer-hits-hole-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior  golfer hits hole-in-one"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248613\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nmcpix-300x199.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jang Hyew Duck, center, is all smiles as he is awarded the ceremonial prize for hitting a hole-in-one during the 14th Annual Northern Marianas College Foundation Golf Tournament last Saturday at the Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort. Also in the photo is NMC president Carmen Fernandez, right, and NMC Foundation board chair Mary Tenorio. (Erwin T. Encinares)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About to give up in the competition after a bad start, Senior Flight golfer Jang Hyew Duck turned out to become the biggest winner in the 14th Annual Northern Marianas College Foundation Golf Tournament after hitting a hole-in-one at the Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Jang made the rare hole-in-one on the east course\u2019s par-3, 130-yard hole No. 6 and he went home with the $5,000 prize that was sponsored by McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Jang, in an interview with Saipan Tribune, said that during the time he was about to tee at hole No. 6,  he was losing hopes after hitting a triple bogey earlier in the tournament and a double bogey at hole No. 5. He used his trusty 7 iron in hitting the biggest shot in the contest and trying to break his bad luck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to enjoy,\u201d Jang recalled the moments before sinking the hole-in-one.  He used his 4 iron without knowledge at all about the greens prior to hole No. 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is why for hole No. 6, I changed to the 7 iron and was just hitting for fun. The tee felt very nice and I thought I could get at least a birdie but then I noticed the people watching got very excited and then out of nowhere, I hit the hole-in-one,\u201d recalled Jang, still laughing from all the excitement.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jang, this was not his first hole-in-one and incidentally he made the same shot in the similar hole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my third hole-in-one. I hit a hole-in-one on No. 6 of the east course about 3 years ago. It\u2019s a very special hole,\u201d he said.  \u201cHowever, this was my first time to hit a hole-in-one in an actual tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jang added he plans to share some of his rewards with his front and back team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also donated to all the staff and will share my winnings with all my friends,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jang got additional prize money ($300) as he also finished second in the Seniors Flight. He shot a 5-over par 77 after firing a 40 on the front nine and a 37 on the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About to give up in the competition after a bad start, Senior Flight golfer Jang&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":248613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16028,3988,16029,16030],"class_list":["post-248576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-jang-hyew-duck","tag-mary-tenorio","tag-senior-flight","tag-seniors-flight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}