Two Goleta-raised founders are giving local golfers a shot at $10,000 on the ocean-view 11th, one swing at a time.

This Labor Day weekend, every golfer who tees it up at Glen Annie Golf Club can turn a single swing into $10,000.

Central Coast Challenge sets up at Glen Annie’s par-3 11th, a roughly 160-yard hole with the Pacific in the background, Friday, Sept. 4 through Monday, Sept. 7.

For $20, any player can take the challenge as part of their round. Make a hole-in-one, and you walk off with $10,000.

A portion of every entry goes back to the host course, and a portion supports Folds of Honor, the nonprofit that provides educational scholarships to the families of America’s fallen and disabled military service members and first responders.

The event is the debut of a contest that founders Dan Desiderio and Eli Harris, both born and raised on the Central Coast, built for their hometown golf community.

“The idea is simple: bring a little of the thrill of a PGA moment to the local course, keep it affordable, and rotate it across the region so every club gets its turn,” organizers said.

“Growing up, my dad spent 30 years as a superintendent on courses all over the central and southern coast, so I basically grew up on a golf course,” said Desiderio. “This is our way of giving something back to the game and the community that raised us.

“Standing on 11 with the Pacific stretched out in front of you and ten grand on the line is a memory, win or lose.”

For Harris, who has built companies from the ground up and mentors young entrepreneurs locally, the draw is the shared moment.

“A hole-in-one is one of the rarest, most electric things in sports,” he said. “We wanted to give everyday players a real shot at that feeling, right here at home.”

Aces are famously hard to come by, which is exactly what makes the payoff so big. Players enter right at the 11th tee during their round, and every attempt is witnessed and verified on the spot.

The host course is right there with them. “We’re thrilled to have this at Glen Annie, and we want to see as many players take a shot at it as possible,” said Scott Johnson, general manager of Glen Annie Golf Club. “Come out and give it a swing.”

The Glen Annie weekend is a pilot for a bigger vision: a rotating Central Coast Challenge that travels from course to course through the season, each stop giving back to the host course and a charity chosen for that event, organizers said.

For more, visit centralcoastchallenge.com.