1/17/08

Players Course brings Morris a second ace
By Jerriod Grizzle

JERRIOD GRIZZLE/Manning Times

Laverne Morris stands in her back yard holding her 7-iron Jan. 3. Morris hit a hole-in-one on Nov. 16, 2007 at the Players Course in Manning using the 7-iron, a feat that has only happened once before in her life.

Laverne Morris has waited 35 years for what happened on Nov. 16, 2007.

Morris’ first hole-in-one was in 1971, and has now been followed by another at the Players Course in Manning.

Morris scored a hole in one on the 16th hole using a 7-iron.

“It is the hardest green to putt and I saw the ball roll on the back and my friends Lola Bradshaw and Peggy Cunningham started screaming that they thought it was going to go in. I looked up and it was in the hole,” she said.

Morris’ said she would like to have more one-stroke wonders in 2008 but she is not going to make any goals.

“I’m going to take any I can get and I intend to get as many I can,” she said.

Morris, 68, has been a member of the Player’s Course for three years. She said she started golfing at 33-years-old.

“My husband and I liked it so much we quit everything we did and started golfing,” she said.

Morris, born and raised in Manning, is a retired bookkeeper from B-Mart and a charter member of Manning Baptist Church.