Mitch Bernet has been coming to the Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival for five consecutive years. While he loves getting a taste of incredible food and drinks, Bernet, who traveled from Atlanta across country, enjoys interactive activities held at the Festival.
But he didn’t expect to take the moment of the week and the festival, when he recorded a hole-in-one on a GOLFZON simulator at the iconic 7th hole of Pebble Beach Golf Links.
“I think it was the wine that got my really cranked in there,” he said. “Lot of good food, lot of good wine and just being around great people. This is my fifth time at the Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival. Lot of fun doing these interactive experiences because it’s a nice change of pace from everything else going on.”
GOLFZON America hosted a Hole-In-One Contest during the weekend of the Festival. With over 3,000 people coming each day, the Festival was bustling and GOLFZON’s booth was a highlight of the Festival’s weekend.
Hundreds of people lined up to participated in the contest, which gave each of them five shots to win the competition. The weekend winner received a foursome at the Hay while daily winners received Pebble Beach gift bag.
Bernet took home the prize on his fourth attempt. He credited the great food and wine and the people for his ace.
“It was really fun just being around all that with my friends in the background watching,” he said. “One of my buddies got in to 3 feet so we had a little bit of a side bet and I was able to win that too. It worked out great.”
Bernet is a psychiatrist and golfs as often as he could. This was his second-ever ace, though the first one on a simulator. His other time was at Spring Creek in Memphis, Tennessee.
“Something like that,” he said. “You never forget, actually.”
He remarked that that Sunday’s hole-in-one is something he won’t forget either. Noting that the TwoVisionNX replicates the green-grass experience, Bernet had wanted to get a golf simulator in his second garage in Atlanta.
“We’re going to have GOLFZON people out,” he said. “I’m building a secondary garage at my place and want to put one of these in. It’s something that I think would be really helpful. And at my age, anything that can be helpful, I look to do it.”