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Article: Pratts find family-friendly hole.(Columns)(Column)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2005
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Byline: INSIDE THE OUTDOORS By Mike Stahlberg The Register-Guard
Like son, like father.
How else do you explain Jack Pratt getting a hole-in-one on the eighth hole at Tokatee Golf Course, two weeks almost to the minute after his son Ted aced the same hole.
In front of the same three other witnesses.
Ted Pratt, of Leaburg, got the first ace of his golf career on July 30, using an 8-iron with the tees 158 yards from the center of the green.
"He hits the long ball," Jack Pratt said of his 34-year-old son. "I hit an old man's fade."
Jack, a retired insurance agency owner, is 63 years old. His ace on No. 8 came on Aug. ...