Hip hip Hoo-Rai: Aaron Rai wins the new BMW i8 Roadster with a hole in one.

  • England’s Aaron Rai aces the 167-yard 16th hole
    at the 30th BMW International Open.
  • Peter van Binsbergen, Senior Vice President Sales and
    Marketing BMW Germany, presents the new BMW i8 Roadster.
  • Fourth time the BMW Hole-in-One Award has been won in the
    tournament’s fourth appearance at Golf Club Gut Lärchenhof.

Cologne. The incredible run continues: Gut Lärchenhof has now
hosted the BMW International Open four times, and on each occasion a
player has won the BMW Hole-in-One Award. In this year’s second
round, it was the turn of England’s Aaron Rai to achieve this
spectacular feat on the 16th hole. This stroke of genius with a
6-iron earned the 23-year-old a dream prize: The new BMW i8
Roadster*. Peter van Binsbergen, Senior Vice President Sales and
Marketing BMW Germany, handed the key over to the delighted
23-year-old.

The captivating appeal of the world’s most successful plug-in hybrid
sports car can now be experienced with the roof down. The BMW i8
Roadster features a turbocharged three-cylinder engine, dihedral
doors, a windscreen frame made from carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic
(CFRP) and an electrically operated soft-top, not to mention the
plug-in hybrid drivetrain that has received multiple awards and, with
a power output of 275 kW (374 hp), allows the car to accelerate from 0
to 100 km/h in 4.6 seconds.

When the BMW International Open made its debut in Cologne in 2012,
Englishman Andrew Marshall was the recipient of a BMW 640i Gran Coupé.
Two years later, his compatriot James Heath hit a dream shot to win a
BMW i8. Scotland’s Richie Ramsay was the third player to leave Gut
Lärchenhof in another spectacular car: the BMW M760Li xDrive.