Here at Your Golf Travel we provide you with great golf holiday packages so that you can travel far and wide to play the world’s best golf courses. Some golfers have taken golf travel to the extreme and set a few world records along the way. Next time you embark on a golfing adventure take a look around and see if there are any world records you could set along the way.
Here are the best of the best golf travel world records:
1 ) The greatest distance between two golf courses that an intrepid golf traveller played in the same day is a staggering 9,931 miles. The first golf course was in Sydney, Australia and the second was in New York.
2 ) Some of the golf courses we send you to for your golf holidays are set in stunning locations and the courses found in beautiful mountain ranges are sometimes at such an altitude that the ball will fly 10-15% further through the air. The highest golf course in the world is on another level though. Sitting at 13,025 feet above sea level, the Yak Golf Course in India literally looks down on the rest of the courses in the world.
3 ) Here at Your Golf Travel we pride ourselves on organising the best bespoke golf tours possible in any given location. However, we have yet to have a customer come to us looking for a golf tour that has spanned six continents! Heinrich du Preez completed 18 holes on six different continents in just 119 hours and 348 minutes. That is a little under 5 days to span the globe playing golf!
4 ) Another crazy golf tour was completed by Patrick Herresthal of Germany who played 18 holes of golf in six different countries in less than 24 hours!
5 ) Rockliffe Hall, The Players Club, the East Course at Dalmahoy and the Wales National course at the Vale Golf Resort are some of the longest UK golf courses on offer. None of these come close to standing up to the monstrous Jade Dragon Snow Mountain course in China, which measure in at a staggering 8,548 yards! Included in this brute is a 711 yard par 5!
6 ) The 711 yard hole at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is long but even that doesn’t come close to being the longest golf hole ever played. In less than 12 hours, a fourball from South Africa played teed off from the 3rd hole at Bronkhorstspruit Golf Club and putted out at the 18th at Witbank GC, 47.34 miles away! The team played a mindboggling 785 shots and only lost 28 golf balls! That’s an average of 106 yards per shot.
7 ) Some of the classic links courses on offer at YGT feature shared putting surfaces the first of which were seen at the home of golf: St Andrews. With such vast greens comes the possibility of being faced with a monster of a lag putt. While most of would be happy with a three putt from that range, Fergus Muir had other ideas and duly holed a putt on the Eden Course at St Andrews that measured an impressive 375 feet!
We at Your Golf Travel have been inspired by some of the following golf world records and some of the team think they are beatable.
8 ) The longest golf shot from a seated position measures in at a paltry 124 yards…surely someone can crack the 200 yard mark?
9 ) The highest number of putts holed in a minute is 15. Each putt has to have been taken from a minimum of 13 feet. There must be a dead-eye dan out there who fancies themselves as the boss of the moss!?
10 ) Some of us are unfortunate enough to hit 139 shots over the course of a round but that is nothing compared to 139 shots in two minutes! Dave Ogron set this record with a friend placing a new golf ball in position after every shot…it would take a brave soul to get in the way of this whirling dervish!
11 ) The fastest ever round of 18 holes was completed by a team of 40 golfers who managed the feat in 7 minutes and 56 seconds. The individual record for the fastest round of golf is 26 minutes and 37 seconds…buggy assisted of course!
Which golf world records could you beat and are there any you would want to take a crack at? We want to hear your suggestions!
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In 2007 myself and three friends played all ten courses in St Andrews in one day! That’s 171 holes, carrying clubs and finishing out each hole!
10 rounds is an admirable effort but unfortunately someone out there has bested you! 22 rounds and 9 holes is the current world record although I’m not sure of that has been verified by Guinness. That is over 24 hours though so travelling to a destination with 24 hours of daylight or floodlit courses is the only way forward!
Plus there’s 64-year old Richard Lewis who played more than 600 rounds of golf in 2010.. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/golf/2010-12-27-golf-world-record-richard-lewis_N.htm .. setting a new record for playing and walking the most rounds of golf in a single calendar year.
Hi Rory.
You refer to me in your comment :)
I am also the guy mentioned in point no 3 above, I was part of the fourball who did no 6, and I’m also the guy mentioned in no 11. I have done some crazy stuff, but all my attempts are linked to charities, so while I have fun for a couple of minutes, some guys benefit from it for years to come.
The most rounds in 24 hour record has not yet been verified, as I met the previous record holder who set up the record 35 years ago. He is a very old guy (in his 80’s) and I would want him to cling on to this achievement for as long as possible.
Keep up the great work :)