During the final round of the Jane Rogers Championship on the Canadian Tour, Richard Gilkey set a record by finishing 18 holes in an hour and four minutes. He used just seven clubs.

Now if we could just get the guys on Tour to speed it up a little.

Golf balls don’t grow on trees. But they can get embedded in one. The Memphis Commercial Appeal has a photo and story of a new golf ball found embedded in a tree limb.

I wonder if it belongs to long-time GolfBlogger reader Martin.

A British bulldog needed emergency surgery after catching a golfball in midflight and swallowing it.

And I thought my cats were dumb.

In a publicity stunt by Detroit radio station WJR (760), a group of 40 golfers set a record for the fastest round: 7 minutes, 56 seconds.

The golfers were strategically located along the tee boxes, fairways and greens. The round was played in tag-team fashion, with players running to the ball as soon as it came to rest. When a putt was holed out, another was immediately put into play on the next tee.

The Haywards Heath Course in West Sussex was destroyed after a greenskeeper accidentally sprayed it with a concoction containing an herbicide.

Agent Orange is not good for golf courses.