PORT ANGELES — Unless postponed by rain or wind, more than 8,000 golf balls will be dropped by helicopter on Saturday.
The public is invited to watch the New Year’s Day “helicopter hole in one” from the stadium bleachers at Civic Field, Fourth and Race streets.
Saturday’s golf ball drop will be at noon. The stadium opens at 11:30 a.m.
For months the PDN, other businesses and members of the Nor’wester Rotary Club have been selling “hole in one” tickets to raise money for a skateboard park in Port Angeles.
The serial numbers on the tickets match the numbers on 8,200 golf balls that will be dropped by a Green Crow timber company helicopter over a simulated one-hole golf course at Civic Field.
The person with the ticket number of the golf ball that makes a hole in one (the cup holds only one ball) — or gets closest to the cup — will win a restored 1975 Toyota Celica, value $7,500, donated by Wilder Toyota.
The second closest numbered golf ball wins that ticket-holder $1,000.
Third closest wins $500.