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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A man who hit a hole-in-one during a charity golf match is suing a car dealership and the event's organizers because they won't give him a car he says he won with the ace. Joseph McDonald, 45, of Bridgewater, was elated in June when his tee shot on the par-3, 152-yard seventh hole at Raritan Valley Country Club sailed right into the cup without even hitting the green. Signs on the hole said that a hole-in-one would win a golfer a 2005 Ford 500, McDonald said.
But the Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren county bar associations, which sponsored the tournament, won't give McDonald the car because their insurance company said the signs should have been posted at a different hole: the par-3, 205-yard sixth. McDonald filed a lawsuit last month claiming breach of contract and fraud. He's suing the bar associations, the country club and the car dealership that agreed to donate the car. "From my standpoint, it was embarrassing to file this lawsuit. I couldn't imagine all these lawyers couldn't see the liability here is so clear," McDonald's lawyer, Jack Arseneault, told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Wednesday's newspapers. Bar association officials said they planned to fight the lawsuit, but otherwise declined comment. The owner of the car dealership called it "another case of lawyers gone wild." |
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