{"id":144,"date":"2013-07-13T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfecttraveltoday.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:34:21","slug":"the-gateway-to-the-highlandsinverness-host-european-tour-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfecttraveltoday.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"“The Gateway to the Highlands”INVERNESS host European Tour 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
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INVERNESS, Scotland (Perfect Travel Today)7\/13\/13\u2013 According to all accounts https:\/\/www.europeantour.com<\/a> England\u2019s Andrew Johnston was celebrating a first Tour hole-in-one when he aced the par three 11th<\/sup> hole on route to a three under par 69.<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnston earned himself 168 bottles of French champagne, and one bottle for each of the 168 yards of the par three.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the effort\u00a0was all the more remarkable given\u00a0Johnston\u2019s playing partner, Phil Price of Wales\u00a0aced the same hole in the same round 12 months ago and also went home with 168 bottles of bubbly in his car boot!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Johnston, a Challenge Tour Graduate from 2011, went on to shoot a creditable opening 69 and admitted that he couldn\u2019t believe his eyes when the ball dropped. The man from Middlesex, whose grandfather is Jamaican and who carries the Jamaican flag as the identifying feature on his golf ball, laughed: \u201cI knew my eight iron was good but I just kept urging the ball to keep going.<\/span><\/p>\n