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Rainstorm in Japan turns the ZOZO Championship golf course into a torrential river.
The second round of the inaugural PGA Tour ZOZO Championship in Japan was postponed on Friday due to a severe rainstorm that swept across the Narashino Country Club in Chiba, just east of Tokyo.
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The idea of a reversible golf course, one that could be played in one direction or the other, is not new. In fact The Old Course at St Andrews was at one point regularly played in reverse.
The “right-handed” version of The Old Course is the one we’re all familiar with, but a “left-handed” version was played every other week in the late 19th century that began by teeing off to the 17th green and finishing by playing from the 2nd tee to the 18th green.
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Mulligans aren’t officially part of the rules of golf. Or so we thought.
Sweden’s Jesper Parnevik was involved in a very strange situation during the final round of the Champions Tour SAS Championship over the weekend.
Faced with a short putt for bogey, Parnevik’s putt horse-shoed around the hole and hit his foot.
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Tyrell Hatton was about to play a golf shot during the Italian Open when he was interrupted by the noise of a toilet door.
Funny stuff here and the reactions from the commentators capture the moment beautifully.
Amazingly Hatton, who has one of the biggest tempers on tour seems to control himself pretty well even before realising who had rudely interrupted his swing.
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Check out this crazy golf shot from last week’s Alfred Dunhill Links Challenge.
The Alfred Dunhill Links Challenge sees amateur golfers (often celebrities and VIPs including tournament sponsors) teeing it up alongside the pros.
Playing the par-3 13th hole at Kingsbarns Golf Links, the executive chairman of Dimension Data was paired with South Africa’s Branden Grace and hit this whacky golf shot.
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A nice video feature here on The Golf Show with Warren Smith joining the field for the 24th Australian Hickory Shaft Championship at Royal Melbourne Golf Club held last September.
While it took a while for this video to be featured on FoxSports, it’s great to see the joy that can be had using old hickory shaft golf clubs around one of Australia’s greatest golf courses.
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The rules of golf around the teeing ground changed at the start of the year, and this is one alteration that we missed.
It turns out that if your golf ball ends up behind where you just played from, you get to tee it up again and your playing two.
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Mexico’s Isidro Benitez was playing in his first Open Championship last week and having a bit of fun while he was learning the golf course.
Benitez had a bit of fun at the par-3 17th hole at Royal Portrush and The Open caught this ‘arm-iron’ hole-in-one on video.
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This may be the most entertaining 14-club challenge video yet.
Eddie Pepperell and Ryan Fox faced off in the latest of the European Tour’s 14-club challenge.
The two players took the challenge to the 152-yard eighth hole of Lahinch Golf Club prior to the Irish Open and it’s a great watch.
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Absolute gold here from the European Tour as golf fans are pranked at the Irish Open.
Golf fans attending last week’s Irish Open at Lahinch were unexpectedly left to fend for themselves in the commentary booth. Or so they thought. Brilliant.
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