Marathon Golfer Berger Flips 34 Rounds In One Day

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Published: July 13, 2010

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What did Indiana golfer Ben Berger call tennis pros John Isner and Nicolas Mahut after they completed their record setting 11 hour and 5 minute match? Pikers! Slackers! Wusses!

 

I’m kidding. Please, no letters.

Marathon golfer Ben Berger is too tender for that. Berger would have said “Well done!” even though Berger’s 16-hour, 34-round day of marathon golf leaves our tennis heroes in the dust. Remember, John and Nicolas played their 11-hour match over three days, with two nights of rest. Ben Berger went from dusk to dawn swatting golf balls…at a brisk, brisk pace.

 

 

Ben Berger did his final “Par for the Cause” golf charity event Friday, June 25th, teeing off to flashlights at 5:29 and finishing after sunset at 9:30 pm. When I say brisk pace, I’m talking Lipton Tea-slapping-your-face-brisk; Usain Bolt as your caddy brisk; New York minute around a par 72, 6400 yard Indiana golf course brisk.

That’s 18 holes every thirty minutes, some holes finished in less than 90 seconds. Ninety seconds! Jack Nicholas took that long on one putt. No strike that; three times that long on one putt!

And Berger set these records for a good cause—autism awareness—while raising $200,000 over five years. Plus, 32-year-old Ben wasn’t too shabby in the scoring department. It was an average course with lots of water hazards, which his thirsty golf balls found, and yet he never scored over 82.

How about this: 95 birdies and five eagles in one day, 12 rounds of par or better.

We think his high school golf coach, Steve Read, in Lakeville, Indiana, taught him well. “Our coach always said,” Berger tells us “I don’t care how bad you shoot as long as you play fast.” Berger’s coach was a no-nonsense guy and a master of the back-handed complim...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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