Golf

On June 7, 2007, actor Rob Lowe was participating in the Principal Charity Classic Pro-Am at the Glen Oaks Country Club in West Des Moines. Lowe was hitting an approach shot on the par 4 fourth hole when his ball collided with an Eastern goldfinch - the state bird of Iowa -- in mid-flight. The ball...

Just like many of us, Jake Madams wanted to travel around and see different parts of the world, or the United States. Jake just went about it a bit differently. The young Tik Tok star has blown up on social media because of his oddly specific goal... He wants to hit a golf ball in every single state in America.

This weekend it looks like a few golf courses in Waterloo will be open! Three of the city's major golf courses are getting ready to tee off the season...do you see what I did there? The South Hills Golf Course is opening up March 20th, 2021 at around noon. The same goes for Gates Park Golf Course as well as Irv Warren Golf Course.

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The odds of making a hole in one is somewhere around 12,000 to 1. The National Hole-in-One Registry says that there are roughly 450 million rounds of golf played each year in the U.S. Each of those courses reports between 10-15 aces per year...

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A man in Florida was playing a round of golf last weekend, when somehow his ball landed on the tail of an alligator. Rather than just taking a drop, he snuck up behind the alligator and grabbed the ball off its tail. As he grabs the ball, the alligator gets startled and takes off into the water...

The average years of playing the sport before making a hole-in-one is 24.

Danny Noonan Concurs...

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