Dick's New Millennium Hole-in One                                            January 1, 2000

We started the New Year / New Millennium off with fireworks in Hagley Park at midnight.  Then, on New Year's Day at about 12:30 PM (New Zealand Time) our very own Richard Baughn had a hole-in-one!!  Dick used a 5-iron for an ace on the 165 meter (180 yd) 7th hole at Mc Leans Island Golf Club in Christchurch.  This was his 4th hole-in-one.

Given the time zones and all, it turns out Dick was the first American and the first player in a Tournament to have a hole-in-one in the new millennium! 

He missed being the first golfer in the world with an ace in the new millennium by about 3 hours.  A women in New Zealand had the first ace, and amazingly also aced the same hole on December 31!  Witnesses were the same on both days, so she's either VERY lucky or the story is a little fishy.

At any rate, Dick has now been immortalized in the Christchurch Press, page 1, January 2nd, 2000.  However, only about 30 seconds of glory time.