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[June 06, 2008]

One golf shot wins a Maserati

(News & Observer, The (Raleigh, NC) (KRT) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Jun. 6--For the record, Ed Willingham says his "other" car is a 2002 Yukon Denali SUV with about 120,000 miles on it -- "a gas hog, but very functional for having had a house full of boys."



For a 53-year-old dad, it's a good time for a new toy, but the First Citizens Bank executive vice president wasn't thinking it would be a 2008 Maserati GranTurismo or that it would come so cheaply:

One golf shot.



"I don't know much about Maseratis, obviously," he says.

Willingham wasn't even thinking about the $116,925 car when he stepped to the 11th tee Wednesday at TPC Wakefield Plantation in Raleigh. "To be honest, I wasn't playing well" in a pro-am for The Rex Hospital Open, a Nationwide Tour event, he says. "I was just trying to make a good golf swing."

When the ball left the face of his 7-iron, he realized he had. The ball landed about 10 feet short of the pin at the 169-yard, par-3 hole, "checked up" with some spin and "snuck in the side door" for his second lifetime hole-in-one, says Willingham, a 10-handicapper.

He can pick up the white two-door coupe in about three weeks from Maserati of Raleigh. The new Leith dealership will be reimbursed through Tournament Promotions, a local company that "insures" hole-in-one contests.

Willingham says he hasn't decided what to do with the car yet, but it wasn't long before his four grown sons, ages 19-28, started text-messaging him.

Hide the keys, Ed.

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