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[EarlsflyinCobra]

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY THIS HOLE???????


To my golfing friends....this is for real!!!

A 900 yard par 3 is in South Africa. The green is shaped like the African continent and completely surrounded by a sea of sand. You hit off a cliff over 1,400 feet above the hole and it takes 26 seconds for your ball to land. You have to take a helicopter to get to the hole. They post spotters around the green to let you know where your ball lands because you can't possibly see it. Padraig Harrington is the only person to ever par it. He did it in a playoff after a recent tournament there. It is the 19th-hole and only used for playoffs. Watch him do it…with a ‘sandy’ no less.









The first picture has an arrow in the center of it, but is not active. The second picture provides the YouTube video.


http://www.compleatgolfer.co.za/new_...age.asp?id=856

[Ron61]

That is some hole. I would need binoculars just to see the green from there. That might be a good course to have one of the major tournaments played on as it should be fun to watch on TV.

Ron

[Dan40]

I played a course in Bagio in the Philippines. Bagio is a mountain course. One hole, par 4, you address your ball and look to your target. There is an actual target at the top of the hill. When you are looking at the target, you are looking UP at about a 45 degree angle. MAYBE MORE! The hillside has 3 ledges built into it and a rope pull, ski lift kind of thing along the side of the "fairway" to help you up the slope. As you look down at your ball something distracts you at the edge of you vision, OH! its just an airplane flying through the valley, WAY BELOW YOU! Behind the tee the land falls off fairly steeply too, not as steep as the "fairway," but far from flat. You need the distance of a 4 iron to get over the top and the loft of a 6 or 7 to get up fast enough to keep from hitting into the hill. But they won't make the top. If you don't get over the top, the ball rolls down the hill, goes out of sight on the ledge, reappears flying over the edge of that ledge, disappears on the next ledge, flies off there, same scene, next ledge. Then rolls down the rest of the hill, PAST the tee and on down the mountain. Your second shot might be from 100 hundred yards behind and below the TEE. That course requires much beer to play.

Dan

[Ron61]

Dan,

That course sounds like the place to set up a bar for sure. Boy, I can just imagine the frustration of a lot of golfers when their ball goes by on the way down. I think that would be a fun place to just sit and watch for a while. Maybe collect a few golf balls and thrown away clubs.

Ron

[Dan40]

Originally Posted by Ron61

Dan,

That course sounds like the place to set up a bar for sure. Boy, I can just imagine the frustration of a lot of golfers when their ball goes by on the way down. I think that would be a fun place to just sit and watch for a while. Maybe collect a few golf balls and thrown away clubs.

Ron

Bagio is between 4000 and 5000 feet up. A thrown club might not hit the ground for 2 or 3000 feet. Probably wouldn't be worth picking up after that. On one 'elevated tee' the mountain fell steeply to the right. Slicer's Heaven. I asked the caddy what happens if I slice one. He says, "Black hole of Calcutta, ball Gone!"

The town had a bar about every eleven feet. Their San Miguel beer was very good considering the QA didn't exist. One time you could drink a case and not get a buzz. Another, 3 beers and you'd be blotto. I mean GONE!!

They also had a booze called San Miguel Gin. We emptied a bottle and a local showed us a little something about it. He turned the bottle upside down and shook it to make sure it was completely empty. Then he held his thumb over the opening and shook it violently. Lit his lighter, held it near the top, released his thumb and a blue flame shot about 2 feet out of the bottle. He did that over and over with that "EMPTY" bottle 17 times.
I could hear my liver crystallizing.

Dan

[Roscoe]

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.........Carl Spackler

[Dan40]

Originally Posted by Roscoe

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.........Carl Spackler

A Sea story!

Do you know the difference between a Nursery Rhyme and a Sea Story?

A Nursery Rhyme starts out, "Once upon a time." A Sea Story starts out, "This is no sh!t!"

Dan