Apr 3 2009Par 3: The World's Most Extreme Golf Hole

South Africa's Legends Golf & Safari Resort has a very special hole 19 -- a par 3 with a teebox that sits 1,400 feet above the green. The 630-yard hole requires a helicopter to reach the tee and a ball takes nearly 30 seconds to drop to the green below (provided you don't whiff it).
Playing all 19 holes runs about 2,000 South African rand, or about $220 in American bills, but for that you get the helicopter ride, plus a bunch of souvenir swag and a DVD of your shot.
Sweeeeet. Nailing a hole-in-one on the the 19th nets you a cool $1 million. So, practice your swing and meet me in South Africa (read: you bring radio-controlled balls).
Hit the jump for an amazing video of the hole.
Quite simply the most amazing golf hole on the planet [yahoosports]
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Reader Comments
1. Jiakasuma - April 3, 2009 10:14 AM
First!!!! =D
2. jakeywakeyeggsandbakey - April 3, 2009 10:18 AM
click my name for a video of a dude getting a hole in one on this hole.
3. ClaMs - April 3, 2009 10:18 AM
Well done First, now follow the ball
4. Leonidas (aka Anita Bath) - April 3, 2009 10:18 AM
Finally, my crib gets some well-deserved recognition. Forget golf—practice your swing for beating off the natives. Party at my house, everyone!!
5. naas - April 3, 2009 10:18 AM
@1 yes you're a douche
Hitting golf balls off of cliffs can be fun, especially when it's over a crowded city
6. dubba - April 3, 2009 10:19 AM
...golfers are dumb
7. LSDiesel - April 3, 2009 10:22 AM
@6 I sort of agree. Golf has to be the most boring sport.
Of course, I'm probably only saying that because I'm bitter that I can't swing a golf club properly to save my life (unless of course I was swinging it AT the perpetrator) .
8. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - April 3, 2009 10:27 AM
Isn't a Par 3 relatively on the easy side of difficult? Either way, if your "sport" involves champagne and helos, it's not a sport.
9. Leonidas - April 3, 2009 10:27 AM
Hot insider tip: you get 10 million dollars for hitting the kakhuis behind the green (locals call it "the water hazard".)
10. Watch - April 3, 2009 10:36 AM
CRAZY!
11. Tiger Woods - April 3, 2009 10:38 AM
I thought they were gonna kiss. That would have been nice. Padraig Harrington is halfway out of the closet in that video.
12. Daisy - April 3, 2009 10:41 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshjop job. You can tell its a fake becauise the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where Max tells the Bishop he often thought about joining the priesthood, after being invited to the lutheren center, but upon finding out he's a catholic, the bishop tells him he can't come.
13. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 3, 2009 10:46 AM
George: So I started to walk into the water. I won't lie to you boys, I was terrified. But I pressed on, and as I made my way past the breakers, a strange calm came over me. I don't know if it was divine intervention or the kinship of all living things but I tell you Jerry at that moment I was a marine biologist!
Elaine(Sitting down): George I was just reading this thing in the papers, it's unbelievable!
George: I know I was just telling them the story.
Kramer: Come on George, finish the story.
George(Cont.): The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. I got about fifty feet out and suddenly the great beast appeared before me. I tell you he was ten stories high if he was a foot. As if sensing my presence, he let out a great bellow. I said, "Easy, big fella!" And then, as I watched him struggling, I realized that something was obstructing its breathing. From where I was standing, I could see directly into the eye of the great fish.
Jerry: Mammal.
George: Whatever.
Kramer: Well what did you do next?
George: Well then, from out of nowhere, a huge tidal wave lifted me, tossed me like a cork, and I found myself right on top of him - face to face with the blow hole! I could barely see from the waves crashing down upon me but I knew something was there. So I reached my hand in, felt around, and pulled out the obstruction. (Shows Kramer's golf ball, while Jerry's jaw opens in astonishment)
Kramer: (In disbelief) Is that a Titleist?
(George nods.)
Kramer: A hole in one, huh?
14. Madgame - April 3, 2009 10:48 AM
Well I'm off to a late start but my Mary's extra bloody so I'll catch up.
I wonder how many clubs have been thrown off that tee...
15. hedgehog - April 3, 2009 11:17 AM
@9 :)
16. ScelestusUnus - April 3, 2009 11:43 AM
"Hit the jump for an amazing video of the hole."
Boy, was I dissapointed!
I need to stop skipping over the articles.
17. Annie - April 3, 2009 12:13 PM
Yeah.. finally something on sunny SA! they say wev got the hottest cherries here you know ;P
18. Me - April 3, 2009 12:15 PM
kakhuis? lol... pitty you didnt translate that
19. 24bit-whore - April 3, 2009 12:52 PM
If you're going to check this place out, make sure it's the right time of year...
http://www.extremegolf.co.uk/images/Extreme%20Golf.jpg
20. Polymath - April 3, 2009 1:12 PM
Am I the only one who laughed at "radio-controlled balls"?
'Cause, dammit, it was funny...
21. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 3, 2009 1:48 PM
@19
"Now where did that ball go?'
22. 24bit-whore - April 3, 2009 2:28 PM
'man it's right down there *points down the mountain* ....down there in the snow'.
23. Freddy K - April 3, 2009 2:46 PM
#7 correction. The most boring sport is baseball. I'd rather watch plants grow than baseball.
#21 that is where you would use a bright orange ball.
Also, I now want to play that course. Guess, I should start playing...
24. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 3, 2009 2:53 PM
@22
"I think I see it! Wait....no. That can't be it. It's moving. God damn artic hare."
25. Leonidas - April 3, 2009 5:09 PM
Arctic hare? Snow? I know you're probably quoting from a movie (I'm too lazy to Google), but I don't think you appreciate how beautiful the weather is over here. We're in the middle of Autumn, and it's still so hot that sleeping in the buff is pretty much mandatory (sleeping in the buff on your neighbour's stoep is optional).
26. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - April 3, 2009 8:41 PM
The groundskeeper for that place must wake up pissed off every morning.
@8: I agree. Golf is not a sport, it's an activity.
27. Buckeye Voter - April 3, 2009 9:49 PM
Reminds me of the first tee at Oglebay.
28. Mr.Checkers - April 4, 2009 12:15 AM
@1 Get a life... :] Tiger woods don't got nothing on me.! :D
29. Anonymous Coward - April 4, 2009 11:36 AM
Three words: Elfago Baca Shoot
30. Pubes - April 10, 2009 12:43 PM
ha nice, if only the guy waiting to signal the ball hitting ground was hit. i can see the headlines now. Man killed by golf ball hurtling from 1400 feet above ground. Now thats what i call Million dollar golfing
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32. oohers - June 19, 2009 6:51 PM
Wow, what an awesome hole!
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34. southafrican - July 23, 2009 6:47 AM
PS the green is the shape of Africa