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This is partly inspired by the chap who is golfing his way across America to raise money for charity.
As noted elsewhere, technology is giving us golf clubs and balls that can give even duffers like me 500 yard drives. So let's turn the game inside out, and scrap the holes. Instead, the object
will be simply to hit the ball as far as possible, over hill and dale.
As always, the golfer who can make it from, say, Stamford to Hartford in the least number of swings, wins.
Ballistic Driver
http://sanjose.bizj...8/01/19/story6.html
//can give even duffers like me 500 yard drives....here you go DrC [never trust a man in a blue trench coat, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Man Golfs Across Mongolio
http://www.taipeiti...04/07/05/2003177825
Yes, Mongolio. [calum, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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Make it truly halfbaked, and allow the golfer to propel the ball using any mechanism he or she wants, as long as it is not externally powered and can be carried by one person. |
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There is a documented story of the longest ball ever hit by a man. It went something like 18 miles on a frozen lake... no wind. He did it on a bet that he could not hit a ball a mile on level ground. |
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Alternative concept could be Marathon Golf hole -- with just one really long hole, say from Stamford to Hartford. Par 1000 or something. |
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999- Birdie
998- Eagle
997- Albatross |
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237- Pheasant
236- Bronze winged pigeon
235- Peregrin Falcon |
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You should get bonus points for how straight you hit it. In my last two rounds, my distance has reduced, but the accuracy has increased. And is there somewhere in particular in the destination town that needs to be "hit" with the ball? |
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1001-bogie 1002 double-bogie ... 1008 snowman ... 1800 centi-snowman |
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How 'bout a national tour? Bank it off the Empire State Building, smack it through the Gateway to the West, and finally, with downtown Seattle as the green, have the ball contact the Space Needle. |
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Someone just announced they are golfing across the Steppes, following the route of Genghis Khan. Not entirely sure what golf has to do with the Mongols (did they invent it? I thought that was polo). |
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[curry] - Did Genghis Khan tour somehwere? What route? I'm confused. Would you have a problem doing this through cities - with people & windows to be broken? Driving off the Empire state would invariably kill someone. Maybe the city portion of this could be done with soft balls? |
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There is but one golf course in Mongolio and no, the Mongolions didn't invent golf. Golf was, like everything else, invented by the Scots. |
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I still like this idea. but hey... what ever happened to [booleanfool] |
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