Faster than a speeding golf cart

Slow play has plagued the game of golf since the first time an unlucky Scot spent 45 minutes sifting through piles of damp highland fescue and sheep excrement in search of his wayward feathery. These days, the average loop takes about four hours, but last week, the folks from a radio station in Boyne Falls, Mich., fought back.

The station, Boyne and News/Talk 760 WJR, broke the world record for the fastest “round of golf,” besting the previous mark (held by a sister station in Texas) by clocking in at a roadrunner-esque 7 minutes and 56 seconds. Impossible you say? Well, “round of golf” is in quotation marks for a reason. In truth, the station completed the feat by strategically placing more than 40 participants throughout Boyne Mountain Resort, with players down the fairways hitting the balls as they came to rest, and a golfer teeing off as soon the previous putt was sunk.

So unconcerned was the station with the traditional rules of the game that the players didn’t even bother to keep score. Still, pending confirmation by Guinness, this will go down in history as the world’s fastest round of golf ... and in the distance you can almost hear Rory Sabbatini crying tears of joy.

Read more about the record-breaking round.