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Contestants on The Price Is Right don’t have any say in the game they get to play if they earn the right to join Drew Carey on the stage. However, a golf pro who ended up on the show benefited from a stroke of luck that helped him walk away with a new car.
You can technically say you’ve competed on The Price Is Right if you’re one of the audience members who get the chance to head down to Contestants’ Row, but you’re going to walk away empty-handed unless you’re able to win the “One Bid” round that determines who gets to go on stage for a pricing game and spin The Big Wheel to try to clinch a spot in the Showcase Showdown.
If The Price Is Right scholars on Wikipedia are to be believed, the long-running program has featured a total of 118 of those pricing games since it debut all the way back in 1972; according to the show’s website, 77 are currently in the official rotation.
That includes “Hole in One,” which is a putting contest where contestants can shorten the length of the shot they need to sink in order to win a new car by correctly six ranking items in the order of least to most expensive (the longest attempt looks to be around 12 feet, while the shortest is essentially a one-footer no one has any business missing).
Hole in One was featured on an episode that aired earlier this month where it was played by a contestant named Travis—who just so happens to be a golf instructor and long-drive competitor who’s spent the past decade working as the assistant pro at Brentwood Country Club in Los Angeles.
Travis did pretty well when it came to guessing the prices of the items on display and ended up with an approximately five-foot putt he needed to make in order to go home with a new Hyundai Venue before doing exactly that.
He never would have been able to live down a miss, so I’m glad he was able to rise to the occasion.
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