To celebrate the public release of tickets to the Melbourne World Cup of Golf, teams of young professionals, PGA Australia trainees and local sports stars assembled at The Metropolitan Golf Club to tackle the fastest hole challenge.
Teams of four took on the 14th at Metro, set at 530 yards, with one eye set on the Australian record of 47seconds set in 2016 by a Hawthorn Football club/Footy Show team and the other on the world record of 27.9 seconds, set by the PGA TOUR rookies in January this year.
No world record was broken but there is now a new Australian record.
World’s fastest Hole – Top 10
1. |
PGA TOUR rookies (USA) Tom Lovelady Lanto Griffin Stephan Jaeger Andrew Yun |
27.875 seconds |
Palm Desert Resort Country Club California, USA 5 January 2018 |
2. |
England Tyrrell Hatton Matt Fitzpatrick Matthew Southgate Ian Poulter |
32.70 seconds |
Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort Belek, Antalya, Turkey 6 November 2017 |
3. |
South Africa George Coetzee Brandon Stone Haydn Porteous Dylan Frittelli |
32.96 seconds |
Regnum Carya Golf & Spa Resort Belek, Antalya, Turkey 6 November 2017 |
4. |
France Raphael Jacquelin Alex Levy Gregory Havret Romain Wattel |
34.8 seconds |
Real Club Valderrama Open de España Madrid, Spain 15 April 2016 |
5. |
PGA Australia Trainees James Betts Jamie Stapleton Brad Stephenson Frazer Droop |
37.13 seconds |
The Metropolitan Golf Club Melbourne, Victoria 18 June 2018 |
6. |
Metropolitan Golf Club Team Chris John Charlie Falconer Nick Brown Will Hibbins |
40.84 seconds |
The Metropolitan Golf Club Melbourne, Victoria 18 June 2018 |
7. |
Hawthorn Football Club/ Footy Show Luke Bruest Jack Gunston Sam Newman James Brayshaw |
47 seconds |
The Heritage Golf and Country Club Melbourne, Victoria June 2016 |
8. |
Denmark Thorbjørn Olesen Lucas Bjerregaard Morten Ørum Madsen Lasse Jensen |
49 seconds |
Real Club Valderrama Madrid, Spain 15 April 2016 |
9. |
St Kilda Football Club / Footy Show Sam Fisher David Armitage Same Newman James Brayshaw |
55 seconds |
May 2016 |
10. |
Spain Sergio Garcia Rafa Cabrera Bello Pablo Larrazabal Nacho Elvira |
1 minute 18 seconds |
Real Club Valderrama Madrid, Spain 15 April 2016 |
The PGA Trainees were: Jamie Stapleton, Frazer Droop, Brad Stephenson and James Betts.
The Metro team was: Chris John, Charlie falconer, Nick Brown and Will Hibbins.
The Melbourne Football Club was represented by Oscar McDonald, Michael Hibberd, Bernie Vince and Jordan Lewis.
The Golf Victoria team was Zach Murray, Andre Lautee, Olivia Kline and Julienne Soo.
The World Cup Team was Jack Wilson, Damien Fleming, Matt Kamienski and Eamon Roderick.
Tickets are now on sale to see Australia take on the world at the Melbourne World Cup of Golf from November 21-25, 2018.
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