#18 on the Hankins Course celebrates golfers’ longest drive of their lives through special contest
SILVIES, Oregon – The Links at Silvies Valley Ranch has announced the results of The 2021 Hixson Hole Challenge, a contest that recognizes each golfer who records their personal longest drive on Hankins #18. This year, 121 golfers recorded the longest drive of their life, with 11 of those driving the ball more than 400 yards.
The Hixson Hole Challenge, named after the course’s designer Dan Hixson, pushes golfers to “Nail It” and hit the longest drive of their lifetime. Golfers are allowed to use 12 legal advantages to accomplish the feat, including the use of two extra golf balls. Additional advantages include #18’s notoriously long, wide, and downhill fairway, and the course’s naturally high elevation.
“We’ve all had our fair share of bad finishing holes throughout our golf careers, so the goal of the Hixson Hole Challenge is to infuse that sense of accomplishment and personal victory that we all could use more of out on the Links,” said Sean Hoolehan, director of golf at Silvies. “To get to celebrate 121 players this year was thrilling, and we hope to see even more players take and succeed in the challenge next season.”
Golfers who successfully record the longest drive of their career on the final hole receive an engraved Silvies flask of rye whiskey and a complimentary round of Silvies famous “Horseshoe Nails” cocktail. Winners also get the privilege of signing the resort’s highly sought-after “Book of Winners.”
#18 on the award-winning Hankins Course has previously been named one of the “Best Long Golf Holes in North America” by Golf Advisor and one of the “Great Holes of the Northwest” by Pacific Northwest Golf Magazine.
The season may be over for this year, but there is plenty of winter fun to be had at Silvies. For more information on winter packages at the ranch, or to book ahead for golf getaways next year, visit https://silvies.us/
About The Retreat, Links and Spa at Silvies Valley Ranch
The Retreat, Links and Spa at Silvies Valley Ranch is a boutique 34-room eco-resort, complete with luxurious accommodations, fine dining, a conference center, full-service fitness center and spa. The property offers an award-winning golf experience for players of all skill levels, with two reversible 18-hole courses – the Hankins and Craddock Courses – McVeigh’s Gauntlet, a stunning 7-hole ridge course, and Chief Egan, a mountain meadow 9-hole par-3 course. Merging lodge and spa amenities with an amazing, diverse golf experience, intertwined with an authentic Western ranch, Silvies Valley Ranch is the ultimate Western luxury retreat. Each and every stay brings the experience of a lifetime – visit and be Simply Amazed.
Silvies Valley Ranch, founded in 1883, is an ecologically sustainable Western livestock ranch and guest retreat with abundant herds of healthy wildlife, cattle and goats. In many ways, it sets the standard for sustainable ranching and environmental practices. Made up of 150,000 acres of deeded and leased National Forest lands in and surrounding Silvies Valley, Oregon, the property is home to countless wildlife species, mountain meadows, Ponderosa Pine forest, the Silvies River, and 12 other creeks and streams.
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