The 36 competitors in this week’s Volvo Champions event will have 20 chances over the four rounds at any of five hole-in-one prizes worth a combined total of $417,000.

It a first-ever in golf, there will be the prize of either a Volvo sedan and a Volvo backhoe at the four par threes while there is the prize of a Volvo truck for an ace a short 250-meter (273-yard) final hole.

The prizes are:-

Par three, 2nd hole – Volvo S-60 sedan ($US47,000)

Par three, 4th hole – Volvo V-40 Cross Country sedan ($US47,000)

Par three, 12th hole – Volvo XC-60 seadan ($US 55,000)

Par three, 15th hole – Volvo backhoe ($US 75,000)

Par four, 18th hole – Volvo FH-16 truck ($US 200,0000).

South African Charl Schwartzel said:  “If I won the lorry at 18 I’d drive it straight back to Joburg (smiling)”.

Louis Oosthuizen aboard the excavator he won last year in Durban.