In Illinois, a golfer managed to survive falling into a sinkhole that opened up on the course.

Mark Mihal was having a good opening day on the links when he noticed an unusual depression on the 14th fairway at Annbriar Golf Club in southern Illinois. Remarking to his friends how awkward it would be to have to hit out of it, he went over for a closer look.
One step onto the pocked section and the 43-year-old mortgage broker plunged into a sinkhole. He landed 18 feet down with a painful thud, and his friends managed to hoist him to safety with a rope after about 20 minutes. But Friday’s experience gave Mihal quite a fright, particularly after the recent death of a Florida man whose body hasn’t been found since a sinkhole swallowed him and his bedroom.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mo-golfer-survives-fall-into-Ill-course-sinkhole-4347711.php#ixzz2NNjYgisn

Illinois-based Brolin Enterprises apparently has set a world record with a 30 ft, 6,000 lb tee golf tee. It eclipsed the previous record by a yard.

I’m waiting to see the ball and the driver.

A 2,500-year-old skull was found in a bunker at Musselburgh Links Golf Course. Musselburgh is the oldest course in the world.

Have you ever found bones on a course you’ve played. In my first round of golf, I played on a tee next to a dead horse.

A pulp magazine cover from the distant past.

Amazing.

In this video, Michael Furrh, a Texas club pro sets the Guinness World Record for the longest usable club. The beast measures 14 feet, 2.5 inches. The drive went 146 in the air.

The previous record was 13 feet five inches.

Not sure what the point is, though.

The Guinness Book of World Records has its origins in an argument Sir Hugh Beaver had over which was the fastest game bird in Europe. Beaver, chairman of Guinness brewery, soon found that common reference books were inadequate for the task of finding such information. In a flash of insight, Beaver realized that there likely were similar arguments taking place in pubs all over Ireland, and that a reference book was needed. As a publicity giveaway. Beaver commissioned Norris and Ross McWhirter, who ran a London fact-finding agency, to produce the Guinness Book of Records. The first edition was published in August 1954 and a thousand copies were given away. The concept proved immensely popular. The 1955 edition became a British bestseller, and the 1956 American edition sold 70,000 copies.

This HAS to be photo-shopped.