b'CHIP SHOTSSwing, Ace, RepeatOn Thursday, July 23, Alan Cottle took a 9-iron and shot a hole-in-one on the 134-yard par-3 11th hole at Yakima Country Club. A nice feat, to be sure, and a memorable one. However, it was quickly overshadowed by the group playing directly behind him. As Cottle walked to the 12th tee, he heard the yells when Ron Hoffman aced the same hole, and then watched as Mark Littleton, in the next swing after Hoffman, dropped another hole-in-one. The odds of back-to-back holes-in-one are 1-in-144 million (based on 1 in 12,000 odds for an amateur golfer of recording an ace). The odds of three holes-in-one on the same hole within 10 minutes? We dont know, because our calculator exploded.Left to right: Mark Littleton, Ron Hoffman, Alan Cottlethey have the number for the 11th hole at Yakima Country Club, and that number is 1. The Butterfly EffectThroughout PNGA territory, 30 golf courses have created hundreds of acres of butterfly habitats through the Monarchs in the Rough initiative begun by Audubon International, in partnership with golf course superintendents, golf management companies, Environmental Defense Fund, Monarch Joint Ventureand the United States Golf Association.In all, over 700 golf properties throughout North America have committed 1,020 acres in the effort to save pollinators and,specifically, the Monarch butterfly and its legendary annual migration across North America.The number of Monarchs migrating to the Northwest has plummeted 90 percent over the past 20 years.Visit monarchsintherough.org for more information. 8PACIFIC NORTHWEST GOLFER|SEPT 2020'