Posted on 10/14/2022 2:18:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An Arkansas man has accused the Morrilton Country Club of cheating him out of an advertised prize for a hole-in-one challenge during a weekend tournament.
Austin Clagett of Conway is pursuing legal action against both the country club and Jay Hodge Ford of Morrilton after they refused to transfer to him the title of a 2022 Ford F-150 4x4 Supercrew, valued at $53,595, KATV reported.
Pre-tournament advertising hyped the truck as a prize for the first participant in Saturday’s “Tournament of a Century” to make a hole-in-one on the course’s 10th hole.
As per Golf Digest: “Against all odds, Clagett went out and aced the 10th hole. According to reports, it was a good, clean ace. It didn’t happen on a provisional. It didn’t happen out of turn. A letter-of-the-law ‘one.’ When Clagett went to claim his new ride after round, however, Morrilton Country Club wouldn’t turn over the keys.”
According to a news release issued by Clagett’s attorney, Andrew Norwood of Denton & Zachary, Clagett sunk the tricky shot on his first attempt but was denied his reward.
“This is about doing what is right. Mr. Clagett lived up to his end of the deal when he got the hole-in-one, and now Morrilton Country Club and Jay Hodge Ford of Morrilton want to crawfish out of the deal,” Norwood said.
“If they didn’t want to pay up when Mr. Clagett got a hole-in-one, they shouldn’t have offered the deal,” he added.
Jay Hodge Ford said in a prepared statement that the dealership was unable to fulfill the club’s request to provide the truck as a prize because they were not given adequate lead time to provide insurance for the vehicle, KATV reported.
“Without our knowledge, Morrilton Country Club promoted that this new truck would be available as a winning prize at the event despite our agreement that it would be for display purposes only,” the dealership stated, adding, “Jay Hodge Ford of Morrilton would like to extend its sincerest apologies to the community for this misunderstanding, and we look forward to serving everyone in the future.”
If they didn't have the "insurance" don't provide the truck!
Some con at the dealership took the gamble that he could get the free advertising without paying the insurance premium.
The prize for a hole in one was a $50,000 pick up truck.
Too bad for them, pay up, plus all attorney fees
I do too.
Looks like the country club and the Ford dealership will pay the price of the truck plus legal fees, etc.
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If I’m on the jury they’ll pay double that.
Sounds great. He gets the car plus enough for the taxes and legal fees, and then twice everything just because the dealership is so stupid.
golf ball launcher?
What’s stupid is the course can finance the truck and get more than $700 a month in advertising if they had framed the story as they goofed by not buying the insurance but they were honoring the commitment anyway. Instead they are now weasels that tried to get out of a commitment... who would want to golf there?
I used to buy used tires. Until coming back from a trip I got two flats within the span of a couple of hours. I changed the one tire, but then had to get a tow in the middle of the night for the second one. And a motel room.
I figured new tires would be cheaper!
Those were adventurous times. Generally things like a tow or a motel room were out of the question. I still remember being able to afford a whole set of tires for the first time in 1979, even though the set cost over $200.
Nowadays I’ll buy tires as soon as the tread-wear indicators show, and a few years ago I even replaced an unworn spare on my pickup because it was about 10 years old. It’s quite a while since I had to change a tire alongside the road.
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