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Emmaus,
Pa. 20th March - Mens Health magazine of the US for April has
listed its 10 most dangerous golf courses in the world.
- Lost
City Golf Course, Sun City, South Africa. The 13th green is
fronted by a stone pit filled with crocodiles, some 15 feet long.
- Elephant
Hills Country Club, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The fairways
are sometimes marked by craters caused by mortar shells fired
across the Zambezi River.
- Compton
Par 3 Golf Course, Compton, California. High calibre excitement
- home to the Crisps versus Bloods, Ryder Cup style competition.
- Machrie
Hotel Golf Course, Islay, Scotland. On this old fashioned
course virtually every drive and approach is blind, played over
huge sand dunes.
- Scholl
Canyon Golf Course, Glendale, California. Built on a landfill
site it ran into problems when golfers snagged clubs on buried
tyres and methane gas rose up from the divot holes.
- Pelham
Bay and Split Rock Golf Course, Bronz, New York. Pelham's
remote location makes it ideal for unfortunate souls. In a recent
10-year period, 13 bodies were said to have been found.
- Singapore
Island Country Club, Singapore. In the 1982 Singapore Open
pro, Jim Stewart, encountered a 10 foot cobra. He killed it, only
to watch in horror as another snake emerged from its mouth.
- Beachwood
Golf Course, Natal, South Africa. Mrs Mollie Whitaker successfully
executed a bunker shot, but was then attacked by a monkey which
leaped from the bush and tried to strangle her. An alert caddie
dispatched the ape.
- Plantation
Golf and Country Club, Gretna, Louisiana. With 18 holes shoved
into 61 acrea (less than half the norm) players must huddle against
a protective fence while waiting their turn to play.
- Lundin
Links, Fife, Scotland. A most enjoyable links course near
to St Andrews unless you happen to be Harold Wallace who got hit
by a train when crossing over the track behind the 5th green.
If you know
a golf course that fits into this dangerous category, please send
us an e-mail. We will list the most interesting ones.
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