This Lawsuit Over Golf Tournament Prize Is Your Next 1L Contracts Final

// Here’s one for the 1Ls out there gearing up for Contracts.

A charity golf event benefitting Nova Southeastern University Orlando offered a Mercedes E Class vehicle as a prize to “Amateur Golfers Only” who snagged a hole in one. Not sure why it needs to be limited to amateurs. A hole in one is a lucky shot. A golfer’s expertise is in efficiently chaining together holes, hitting greens in regulation and a skillful short game. But, if that’s in the deal, that’s in the deal.

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The plaintiff, Linda Chen, says she hit a hole in one on the 11th. This is apparently not in dispute. The tournament organizer refused to confer the prize.

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Chen filed her lawsuit against Galvin, his company Tournament Golf Events, Mercedes-Benz of South Orlando, which also advertised the prize, and ACE Hole in One, a company that provided hole-in-one coverage for the tournament.

Got all the parties? Good.

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The tournament organizer claims that it was the indemnifier, ACE Hole in One, who declined to cover the prize, noting that she worked as a professional golfer.

BUT, she’s an amateur now. According to the USGA, Chen ceased to be a professional and became an amateur in 2000. So Chen may have been a professional last millennium, but the national sanctioning body says that title no longer applies. Barring language in the agreement defining a professional as someone who has or has ever held professional status, which Chen’s attorneys claim does not exist…

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Whaddya think?

Hole-in-one prize winner sues after she’s denied keys to new Mercedes-Benz in Florida [Miami Herald]

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