Dec 16th, 2016 Article
Mark Wahlberg’s speed golf
The actor, producer and golf nut Mark Wahlberg can play 18 holes in just over an hour. Here’s how he does it!
The actor, producer and golf nut Mark Wahlberg can play 18 holes in just over an hour. Here’s how he does it!
You give golf a bad name... Several passersby were injured after a reckless driver in Stockholm threw golf balls at them from a moving vehicle.
As planned golf club burglaries go, well, this wasn't. And it resulted in prison time for two men who stole booze and a measly £50 from the till.
Rob Hogan plays golf very, very quickly. Plus, he's got a massive beard. Which is weird because when we met him in 2014 his chin was as bald as a coot. Anyway, since then he's gone heck-fire crazy and won last year's World Speed Golf Championships.
Now we're talking. If you want to speed up play on the golf course, just put the image of free ice cold beer on the end of a stick and wave it in front of players as they embark on nine holes. That's what they did at Palmares and it worked...
I wrote last year about a golf course that had been saved from the HS2 railway link, but a course in Singapore isn't going to get away with a similar high speed train development.
Palmares Beach & Golf Resort, in the Algarve, is hitting the accelerator in the war against slow golf as 2019 gets off to a turbo-charged start.
Following years of rigorous product development, the introduction of the new Titleist Tour Speed – a high performance, multilayer golf ball with a proprietary thermoplastic urethane cover – provides golfers with the fastest, best-performing golf ball in its category. Michael Mahoney, Vice President, Golf Ball Marketing, said:
It looks like golf may well have skipped a generation. The Washington Post reported that golf has lost 35 percent of the 18-30 demographic. ‘Millennials’ just aren’t playing the game. But here's someone who is trying the fix the issue.
It’s a hot topic and one that is not going to go away. Slow play is killing our game and GolfPunk for one will not stand idly by and accept that nothing can be done. We believe our manifesto can speed up play will go a long way to get the guys round quicker!
England Golf is partnering British Speedgolf to promote the fast and fun version of the game as part of its Golf Express campaign.
Ricky Wysocki is a true disc golf talent. He’s got all the ‘shots’, and we’re dead impressed down here at GolfPunk Towers. He’s got everything you need for disc golf in his locker. Check out the video here.