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On June 7, 2007, actor Rob Lowe was participating in the Principal Charity Classic Pro-Am at the Glen Oaks Country Club in West Des Moines. Lowe was hitting an approach shot on the par 4 fourth hole when his ball collided with an Eastern goldfinch - the state bird of Iowa -- in mid-flight. The ball...

Just like many of us, Jake Madams wanted to travel around and see different parts of the world, or the United States. Jake just went about it a bit differently. The young Tik Tok star has blown up on social media because of his oddly specific goal... He wants to hit a golf ball in every single state in America.

This weekend it looks like a few golf courses in Waterloo will be open! Three of the city's major golf courses are getting ready to tee off the season...do you see what I did there? The South Hills Golf Course is opening up March 20th, 2021 at around noon. The same goes for Gates Park Golf Course as well as Irv Warren Golf Course.

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The odds of making a hole in one is somewhere around 12,000 to 1. The National Hole-in-One Registry says that there are roughly 450 million rounds of golf played each year in the U.S. Each of those courses reports between 10-15 aces per year...

A Florida golfer had to bypass the "play it as it lies" rule when an alligator took his ball and swam away. Marc Goldstein was playing a round at the Pelican Sound Golf Club in Estero when a nasty slice sent his ball near a pond. He couldn’t believe what he saw and he knew no one would believe him, so he grabbed his phone to record video of his ball in the mouth of an alligator ... Read

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Here's the scenario: You’re playing 18 holes with your best buddies, it's a hot day and the beer is flowing. You’re coming up to the 6th hole with no bathroom in sight. There are no trees or bushes around and you just have to go, what are you going to do...

A man in Florida was playing a round of golf last weekend, when somehow his ball landed on the tail of an alligator. Rather than just taking a drop, he snuck up behind the alligator and grabbed the ball off its tail. As he grabs the ball, the alligator gets startled and takes off into the water...

Protect the links from evil and be the king of the Fairways with the Batman Tumblr golf cart.  You'll be able to retrieve your ball after a nasty bat-slice in this golf cart inspired by the Tumbler, the vehicle by Batman in the 2005-2012 Dark Knight movie series...