Chuck and Amy Weirich (Photos: Michael Donahue)

About 20,000 attended this year’s Hole in One Charity Festival at St. Louis Catholic Church. Only about a dozen, perhaps, made holes in one during the event, but nobody made the hole in one to win a cool million dollars or the car.

Each year, the St. Louis church campus is transformed into a 41-tee box range. For a week, beginning on Father’s Day, (which, this year, was on June 21st, the first day of summer), golfers try to win cash and prizes for getting holes in one or close to the hole. Certain golfers compete for an automobile from City Auto. Points are accumulated all week. The top 10 golfers get to shoot out for a million dollars on Saturday.

The St. Louis Men’s Club Culinary Institute prepares the food, including the devastatingly delicious shrimp and pesto pizza. 

Michael Donahue began his career in 1975 at the now-defunct Memphis Press-Scimitar and moved to The Commercial Appeal in 1984, where he wrote about food and dining, music, and covered social events until...