by Ron Johnston
Dr. Greg Parnell had an eventful Tuesday, October 15, 2024, on the links.
The 1966 Caledonia-Mumford Central High graduate recorded his second career hole-in-one at Heatherhurst The Brae in Fairfield Glade, Tennessee.
Swinging from the hybrid 5 Brae yellow tees, Parnell said the ace occurred “on the par 3, 105-yard, seventh hole.”
“The green was elevated,” added Parnell, a southpaw, “and we couldn’t see it go in, but I knew it was in line with the hole.”
Parnell was golfing with Bill Rowell of Bellbrook, Ohio.
“I walked to the green,” Parnell continued, “and looked all around before looking in the hole.
“The ball was new and the first time I’d hit it.”
Parnell, a student at Churchville Junior High in the early sixties, is a retired Air Force colonel and a professor emeritus at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
“I began golfing in 1993 while stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB (near Dayton, Ohio),” he said.
Parnell and his wife, Eileen, currently reside at Stonebridge Meadows Golf Club in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
“I live on the 13th hole of Stonebridge Meadows,” Parnell said, “and that’s where I got my first hole-in-one (a few years back).”
Note: Ron Johnston, a 1966 Churchville-Chili graduate, is the author of One-Game Wonder.
