Hole-in-one king: Tim Brown discusses ACC's sixth ace, winning $200,000 MasterCraft

Tim Brown has a trophy room at his home in Texas that's getting a new addition.

That trophy room includes the Heisman Trophy he won as a wide receiver at Notre Dame. It also has his Pro Football Hall of Fame trophy after a distinguished NFL career with the Raiders and Buccaneers. And it has two golf balls, soon to be three.

The first two balls were from hole-in-ones Brown hit at the Augusta National par-3 tournament before the Masters and the second at perhaps the most famous par-3 in America, the island green at the TPC Sawgrass. Soon to join those balls is a Titleist 2 Brown used Friday at the American Century Championship to sink an ace at the par-3 12th. It was the sixth hole-in-one in the tournament's 35-year history, but the first on the 143-yard 12th.

"My boys tell me that the two balls mean more than the two trophies, but I'll beg to differ on that," Brown told Nevada Sports Net with a laugh.

Brown's latest hole-in-one won him a MasterCraft boat, the reward for anybody who sinks an ace on the 12th. The MasterCraft X24 is valued at more than $200,000, which will come in handy as Brown's home is just a couple miles from Joe Pool Lake outside Dallas.

"I didn't think anything about the boat," Brown admitted. "That boat has been there many times when I swung the club in the past, and it didn't mean anything. But a couple of seconds later, Marcus Allen said, 'You just won the boat.' So, we're up on the boat and dancing like we're 8-year-olds or something."

Brown's shot landed about 15 feet shy of the pin, took one hop and rolled into the hole, sparking the celebration. It helped propel Brown to 17 points in Friday's first round, which tied him for eighth in the 91-player field. Brown has been coming to the ACC for more than two decades, this being his crowning moment in Tahoe.

"I wanted to hit a pitching wedge because of the distance but because of the way the tee box was, I felt like I was going to have to choke down on that club," Brown said. "So, I went with a nine iron. I didn't hit it where I wanted to hit it to be honest with you. I was trying to hit it right to get the roll down, and I pulled it just a little left and pulled it right toward the hole."

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