Hole in One Leaves Driver Teed Off

As soon as Todd Obuchowski hit his teeshot on the 116-yard fourth hole at Beaver Brook Golf Course in Haydenville, Mass., he knew it was heading over the green and toward the adjacent road.

Nancy Bachand and her Toyota were driving past at about 30 mph when the ball smacked off the passenger side of her car.

It bounced back on to the green and rolled into the cup for a hole in one.

“I didn’t know for sure until all these guys started shouting,” said Obuchowski, a 34-year-old sheet metal worker.

“It was about the most bizarre thing I’ve seen somebody do on a golf course in 30 years of playing,” Thomas Jenkins said.

Bachand said the shot caused more than $150 damage to her car.

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Trivia time: Eight Angel players have hit three home runs in a game. Who was the first?

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Prepare to duck: David Letterman commenting on the perfect game David Wells pitched Sunday for the New York Yankees against the Minnesota Twins:

“Usually, a perfect game at Yankee Stadium is when nobody gets hit by a chunk of concrete.”

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Fresh air: Bob Ryan writing in the Boston Globe: “Thank you, David Wells. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

“Thank you for getting our minds off Mike ‘gimmegimmegimme’ Piazza. Thank you for getting our minds off the South Florida Stinkpots, or whatever their name is.

“Thank you for throwing a perfect game--and what’s equally important, if you ask me--looking so awesomely thrilled about the whole thing.”

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Have fun: Reader Dave Clemens of Monterey to the San Francisco Chronicle: “Just thought I’d write to tell Chris Webber about the night life in Sacramento. Owls.”

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Scary: Writers and players are running out of adjectives to describe Mark McGwire, who hit home runs of 520 and 540 feet in St. Louis last week.

However, New York Met pitcher Masato Yoshii offered a new one after facing him for the first time: “He’s Godzilla.”

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Does he care? “I’ve watched the Clippers do one silly thing after another,” acting baseball Commissioner Bud Selig told the Miami Herald in response to the multiplayer Dodger-Marlin trade. “Do you see David Stern doing anything about it?”

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Looking back: On this day in 1979, the Montreal Canadiens won their 18th Stanley Cup by beating the New York Rangers, 4-1, in Game 5.

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Trivia answer: Lee Thomas, on Sept. 5, 1961 against Kansas City.

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And finally: Bill Dellinger, 64, on retiring as the University of Oregon’s track and field coach: “Old coaches never die. They just very slowly jog a lap and then fat away.”