I am a firefighter in Novi Michigan and had one of those fires on January 10, 2012 where I had to rescue a homeowner out of a house that was totally involved in flames. To make a long story short, we both made it out and I was sent to the hospital for heat exhaustion and 1st degree burns. I told my wife when she got to the hospital that the man upstairs must want me to accomplish a couple more things in my life and one of them was a hole in one. In April we go to Kentucky for an annual golf outing and here is how it happened.

I was playing terrible on the front 7 holes. On hole 7 I lost my ball and pulled out a Titleist ProV1 and as my mark on my ball I wrote HELP! on the ball. I pulled out my 4 Hybrid teed it up and drove the best shot of the day for me. Straight as an arrow and landed just on the front part of the green. It rolled about 10 feet forward and it looked like it was going to sit on the edge of the hole, then it fell in. My first hole in one and I couldn't have been more happy. The rest of the weekend of golf didn't matter.

Rick Schulz