Golfer Who Faked Hole-In-One During Tournament Resigns From Club After Viral Video

Zach Holland, who is a former college golfer who generated headlines for faking a hole-in-one during a membership event at WingHaven Country Club in Missouri, resigned his membership and admitted to his mistake.

After an online video explaining the situation on Friday generated more than one million views, ESPN reported Monday that Holland said he put his ball in the hole of the par-3 fourth before the start of the event and then said he got a hole-in-one after his group arrived.

He was playing in the first grouping of the event.

"You do something as dumb as I did, there are consequences for that," Holland said Friday during an interview with ESPN St. Louis.

Holland explained he was able to trick his playing partners by temporarily leaving the group after completing three holes to make a personal phone call. He told his group he would move ahead and tee off on the fourth and then meet them on the green.

When the group arrived at the green, they assumed he made a hole-in-one.

Yet security footage showed Holland driving by the fourth green ahead of the event, and he admitted to his actions in the aftermath.

"There's no excuse for what I did, and I was completely in the wrong," Holland said. "There's really no motivation. Just complete stupidity, and we were giving two shots back to the field and that's not an excuse. There's no excuse for what happened."