✅ 4 ROUNDS OF GOLF IN ONE DAY

⛳️ Bucket List 62: Play 4 Rounds of Golf in 1 Day

For any golfers out there, they'll understand 4 rounds back to back to back to back, 72 holes in one day is a lot, all in 12 hours from sunrise, hopefully, until well before sunset. The Cancer Council's The Longest Day annual charity event gave us the perfect reason to give it a go.

Massey Park Golf Club, Friday 20th December 2019, 5.20am, 15 minutes before sunrise, we’re on hole 1 teeing off on the first of our upcoming 72 holes.

We’d talking about it for months, to finally be on the course in dawns early light, barely able to see the ball, this was the experience I’d been waiting for.

After a month of extreme weather in NSW, uncontrollable fires, smoke and dust storms and a week that had 40+ degree temperatures either side of the 20th, we were very lucky to have prefect golfing conditions, 20-28 degrees and partly cloudy.

Success in The Longest Day was always going to be about speed of play, this meant gentlemenly golfing etiquette of waiting for each individual players shot was out the window. We knew we needed to play fast and get around the course fast, so much so we all brought 4 complete changes of clothes in case we ended up running around.

Thankfully we were hitting straight and putting well, but what made it even better was the Massey Park pro shop allowing up to jump queues at 1 and 10 and club GM climbing into a golf cart and driving ahead asking groups to “clear the way for our charity golfers”.

Round 1 set a cracking pace, I wore my Race Across America Team Endeavour polo to pay respect to the greatest endurance race in the world and the team I filmed that completed it. Round 2 was equally quick, another 3 hours round, finished by 11.30am. Round 3, I threw on a Charity Challenge “Scallywag Cup” shirt, from their weekend away event at Barnbougle Lost Farm. On hole 14 of round 3 my wife perfectly timed a subway lunch delivery to fence running along the fairway. Now refueled and heading for home.

2.30pm and we teed off on hole 1 for the last time. An equally surreal feeling from 9 hours earlier, now on the 55th of 72 holes and exactly 230 shots later. The final round was just like the rest, 3 mates hitting balls, walking a golf course talking about life, love, family, work and everything in between. I couldn’t have done it with better guys.

THE SCORE

The day was never about the score, but I still had an overall target total I wanted to get under, so for the golfers reading this, here are the numbers.

Massey is a Par 66 (x4 rounds is 264), +16 is my handicap, the goal to shoot under my handicap over the 4 rounds. The thinking was its a short course, limited to no pressure so 82 per round seems achievable. 82 x4 = 328.

• Round 1: 77 (+11)

• Round 2: 73 (+7)

• Round 3: 78 (+12)

• Round 4: 80 (+14)

• Total: 308