1000 Different Holes in 3 Days

[Steve West]

I found a string of 78 courses that have 1002 holes and are a total of just 378 miles apart. In other words, the average distance from one course to the next is under 5 miles.

At the pace Mike Sale and Dan Schnabel played 417 holes in just one day of civil twilight, 1000 over the course of three days of daylight could be possible.

This concentration of courses extends from the St. Cloud, MN area down through the MPLS/St. Paul area and a little bit over into Wisconsin.

Mississippi River Park, Northside Park, Mayhew Creek Park, Riverside Park, Calvary Hill Park, River's Edge Park, Hidden Lake DGC, Clearwater/Pleasant Lake, Sportsmans Hill, Clearview Elementary School, Becker City Park, Par-West, River Oak Park, Hudson Woods DGC, Zimmerman City Park, Lions Park III, Twin Lakes Park, Oak Grove DGC, VisionQuest, Blue Ribbon Pines DGC, Ham Lake DGC, Lochness Park DGC, Silverview, Bethel University DGC, Lakewood Hills, Acorn DGC, Hansen Park, Fridley Middle School DGC, Fridley High School, Central Park, Eagle's Edge DGC, Hennepin Tech Brooklyn Park, Orchard Trail Park, Coon Rapids DGC, Abundant Life Church, Bunker Hills, Galloway Park, Elm Creek Park Reserve, Plymouth Creek, Zachary Playfield, Sunnyside Park, Bassett Creek Park, Wirth Par 3, Blake Middle School, Bryant Lake Park, Rosland Park, Fort Snelling, Wabun Picnic Area (Minnehaha Park), Highland Park, Garlough Park, Kaposia Park, Oakwood Park, The Valley DGC, IHCC DGC, Northview Park, Red Oak Park, Moir Park, Hyland Hills Ski Area, Hennepin Technical College, Staring Lake Park, Bandimere Park DGC, Chaska Middle School, Lions Park I, Prior Lake High School, New Market DGC, Kenwood Trails DGC, Alimagnet Lake Park DGC, Brockway Park, Empire DGC, Hastings Middle School, C.P. Adams Park, Prescott High School DGC, Afton Alps, River Falls DGC, Teens for Christ DGC, Brekke Park, Arcola Heights Park, Somerset DGC

 

[CreemCheese]

The most I've done in 1 day was 117. I was feeling it for days, can't imagine doing that 10 more times.

 

[brutalbrutus]

Hmmm... 1000 holes in 3 days... I know there is a Wilt "The Stilt" joke in there somewhere...

 

[scarpfish]

And I thought I was ambitious trying to do 300 in one day.

Personal record is 223.

 

[brutalbrutus]

The most I've ever played in a day was roughly 7 rounds(126 holes ish. Been a couple years and don't remember exactly how many I played) at Winton Woods at an ace attack event. fairly short course but after throwing 3 tee shots on every hole, I was pretty dead armed by the end of it...






...and I didn't hit one ace. Chained out a couple times and hit cage several times.

 

[Halcón]

Weren't they pretty much dead after setting the one day record? How could they keep pace for three days?

 

[Flick Maniac]

We did 237 in 19 hours. 1000 sounds pretty ambitious How much time would you spare for sleep each day? Cant really go without, or it will be agony. Got to have fun doing it.

Even with 600+ courses in Finland, they are not necessarily right next to each other. And you have to avoid the busy courses at rush hour too.

 

[knettles]

Did Mike and Dan play 417 DIFFERENT holes in one day, or just 417 holes at the same course over and over?

 

[knettles]

After doing the math, I just don't see how this would work. If you do this during the season with the longest daylight in the Minneapolis area, you've got 15.5 hours. So, there's 334 holes a day. That works out to be 21.5 holes an hour. If you do all 18 holes courses and one 9 hole, that works out to be 19 courses. Even if your average travel time is only 10 minutes (including parking and getting to and from the car), that's a little over 3 hours of travel time for the whole day. That brings your total playtime down to 12.5 hours. So your actual holes per hour would have to be around 26.7! Now I don't imagine you'll be running the entire three days either. To me this just doesn't seem plausible.

Doing your hole count on the same course, maybe. Especially if it's a short course. But travelling to so many different courses means many of them wouldn't be short. Doing this in the summer with daylight and good weather would also mean crowds. I mean, good luck on trying, but I don't know.

 

[roggenb3]

Doing your hole count on the same course, maybe. Especially if it's a short course. But travelling to so many different courses means many of them wouldn't be short. Doing this in the summer with daylight and good weather would also mean crowds. I mean, good luck on trying, but I don't know.

To answer your question above, I am pretty sure they did 417 unique holes in one day. Thus making 1000 in 3 days seem totally feasible.

 

[Flick Maniac]

417 IS a mean feat by itself. We might havegotten to it had we played 24hrs and not had any breaks. But for me The novelty drops off drastically after 24 hours. I mean 1000 IS a cool number but whats next? 5000 in a week?

 

[scarpfish]

Personally, I wish we'd start a new trend of getting the most hole distance covered instead of seeing who can rack up the highest hole counts.

 

[brutalbrutus]

I know a guy who does speed golf. He said he once played Idlewild short 18 in 38min. My legs hurt just thinking about it...

 

[knettles]

I know a guy who does speed golf. He said he once played Idlewild short 18 in 38min. My legs hurt just thinking about it...

I always thought this would be fun if my knees were in better shape. However, I had the idea for competitive speed golf. You have 2-4 players per hole. Each player tees off on their own, then everyone lines up at the tee. Once someone says go, it's a race to be the first to hole out. You have complete chaos as multiple people are throwing at the same time, people are throwing over others' heads, people are trying to putt while other discs are coming towards them, etc. And to keep things safe(ish), it would be putters only. If that still seemed too sketchy, it could be only Gumbputts.

 

[brutalbrutus]

You can pretty much watch the non-competitive version of this everyday around here....






...But the chuck-and-duck squads are usually throwing Bosses or destros...:\

 

[GoobyPls]

You can pretty much watch the non-competitive version of this everyday around here....






...But the chuck-and-duck squads are usually throwing Bosses or destros...:\

Yup, I took a chucker's errant Destroyer to my thigh, 4 inches away from my junk, at Belmont Park last summer.

 

[Steve West]

Did Mike and Dan play 417 DIFFERENT holes in one day, or just 417 holes at the same course over and over?

Different. They then went on to do an extra 83 for 500 within 24 hours.

 

[Flick Maniac]

I know a guy who does speed golf. He said he once played Idlewild short 18 in 38min. My legs hurt just thinking about it...

We finished our last 18 holes of the 237 in something like 22 minutes too. Significantly up and down hilly course with quite long transitions between holes, AND they also had like 4 new holes we no idea were put in, so we also needed to find the teepad and target and play them blind. The sun sat about 2 minutes after both had holed out on 18. Perfect day. Except I was so zoned out I left my DUDE hoodie on the car roof after the round and you can guess how that ended up.

 

[Steve West]

Personally, I wish we'd start a new trend of getting the most hole distance covered instead of seeing who can rack up the highest hole counts.

We're talking about records where they never play the same hole twice. For that kind of record, nobody is out there looking for courses with short holes. The key is minimizing the time wasted between courses. Playing any hole you can come across - even the long uphill holes at ski areas or the holes that require a long walk to the next tee - is better than skipping to the next course.

To maximize hole lengths instead of number of holes, the only change would be to play longer tees when available. Often, that wouldn't even add to the amount of walking they need to do. So, not much more of a feat, really.

With number of holes, you can keep an accurate tally of what you've played. With total length, you would need to know the actual distance from each tee to each target placement. Those can change as targets are moved or holes redesigned after the tee signs were printed. Or, have never been measured accurately.

 

[CabMakio]

Assuming you play 12 hours per day, you'd need to play 27 holes per hour and that doesn't even take into account travel time.

If you were really ambitious and played 16 hours per day, you'd need to play 20 holes per hour, again not taking into account travel time.

Not saying it's impossible but you're going to need to play around the clock once you take into account travel time. Having said that, best of luck and if you pull it off (or even make an honest attempt) I'd definitely watch a video blog of the experience