- Date
- 2004-09-06
- Kind
- Sports
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- sportsrecreationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
On September 6, 2004, longtime summer resident Jim McElwain made a hole-in-one on the Beaver Island Golf Course’s fourth hole during a nine-hole round of 32, matching the course record he had set a decade earlier.
Evidence limits
The report records the newspaper’s account and an official scorecard reference; it does not establish a complete course-record history beyond the information available to the course manager at the time.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, October 2004, "Island golfer scores hole-in-one."Reports Jim McElwain's ace on the 143-yard fourth hole during a nine-hole score of 32, matching the course record he had first set ten years earlier. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2004-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the golf report and photograph.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2004-10_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Jim McElwain records a hole-in-one and matches the Beaver Island Golf Course nine-hole record”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-jim-mcelwain-golf-hole-in-one-2004/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 2004, "Island golfer scores hole-in-one." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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