Debbie Arnst (photo courtesy/Nipawin & District Chamber of Commerce, Facebook)

By Ben Tompkins

Hole in One

Local woman scores $10K after hole-in-one at Rolling Pines

Jun 12, 2024 | 10:58 AM

Debbie Arnst is now $10,000 richer thanks to a once-in-a-lifetime swing of a golf club.

Arnst was part of the Nipawin and District Chamber of Commerce golf tournament this past weekend, where she got a hole-in-one on hole number four at Rolling Pines Golf and Country Resort.

Lucky for her, that hole was part of a $10,000 hole-in-one challenge, courtesy of Nipawin Chrysler Dodge.

“I’ve never had a hole-in-one before,” Arnst told northeastNOW. “We could tell it was sailing nice, but it was headed more towards the left side of the green and the pin was in the middle. Obviously, it hit the green and then rolled just right.”

“That was actually only my third round of the year, but I’m hoping to change that now. I think I had one closest to the pin maybe once before, but never something like this.”

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Because it was such a windy and rainy day, and because the hole location was slightly hidden from the tee box’s point of view, Arnst actually didn’t see the ball go in.

She also didn’t really hear the spotters cheering loudly down near the green, however, the delayed gratification was clearly worth it.

“The guy said he was yelling but it was so windy, that we didn’t hear him. The guy came with his paper and said ‘who shot that? it went in the hole.’ If you’re gonna get a hole-in-one, I think $10K sure adds a bit more excitement to the equation, doesn’t it,” Arnst joked.

“There was a team ahead of us who had asked us when we got off the course if we had heard who got the hole-in-one and I said I hadn’t heard who got it because I was actually the one who did it.”

The plan for Arnst, at least when it comes to spending the $10,000, is on a bigger trailer.

She had joked about winning the $10,000 the night before when her co-worker brought out the hole-in-one signs for the tournament.

Arnst hit her hole-in-one from 145 yards out and used her driver to tee off.

Rolling Pines is a nine-hole course along Highway 255 on the way to the Resort Village of Tobin Lake.

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