There are people for everything. Like Bobby King, a 28-year-old Irish golfer who wanted to break the Guinness World Record for playing the most holes on foot for twelve hours with the same ball. He was only five holes short of that world record.
The gentleman in question, a six-foot-tall, 106-kilogram ‘closet’, is a professional attached to the Irish golf club Birr who had devoted six months of intensive preparation to meet the challenge.
The record-breaking attempt began at 7 a.m. and concluded at the same time in the afternoon after completing twelve full rounds of the course, 216 holes in total.
The effort left him physically and emotionally devastated. “I couldn’t even describe how I felt,” he said the next day. “You couldn’t publish the words I would use,” he joked, adding that he felt like Forrest Gump when he ran non-stop in the famous movie.
To break the record, King would have needed an average of 55 minutes per round. He completed the first in 49 minutes, the second in 49, the third in 52, the next in 53 and the sixth in 56, and then began to exceed an hour per lap. “I knew I had to make up minutes, but my legs started to suffer. My left leg was failing and it was thanks to pure adrenaline that I was able to continue,” he said.
Bobby’s attempt was hampered by the state of the pitch, which was heavy due to the heavy rains that had fallen in the previous days.
The young Irishman from Roscrea is not giving up easily and has announced that he will try again and soon. “It would be an absolute waste of time to wait until next year when I have put a lot of physical and dietary effort into my pre-appearance,” he explained. His intention is to take on the challenge again this summer.
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