4.02.2009

It's not a golf shot, it's a seige weapon

(Yahoo! Sports)
The bonus 19th hole at the brand-new golf course at the Legends Golf & Safari Resort in South Africa is a par 3 -- a par 3 whose tee is atop a cliff on Hanglip Mountain, more than 1,400 feet above a green carved like the continent of Africa. You've got to take a helicopter to get to the tee box, and from there it's more than 630 yards to the pin. Once you tee off, it takes nearly 30 seconds for the ball to hit the ground.

Man, you'd need a shovel to repair the ball marks left if you hit the green from that high up. It'd be like a grenade! Plus, you'd better make darn sure the group ahead of you has cleared the green. I don't think yelling "fore" would be enough to prepare somebody for a golf ball dropping from a quarter-mile up.

Video of Padraig Harrington and Raphael Jacquelin (designer of the hole) playing the monster

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