{"id":21733,"date":"2025-07-25T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/21733\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:25:08","slug":"golfer-makes-world-record-dream-come-true-by-sticking-over-700-tees-in-her-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/21733\/","title":{"rendered":"Golfer makes world record dream come true by sticking over 700 tees in her hair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A golfer who dreamed of breaking a world record knew exactly what to do after seeing Joel Strasser shove record numbers of things into his beard.<\/p>\n<p>Anya Bannasch (USA) was inspired by her fellow American to break the record for most golf tees in the hair \u2013 managing an incredible 711 of them when she took the challenge on in Carlsbad, California, on 9 November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>It was Joel\u2019s many records, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2023\/12\/american-man-breaks-christmas-record-with-187-candy-canes-in-his-beard-762256\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most candy canes in a beard<\/a> (187) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/news\/2022\/12\/man-decorates-his-beard-like-a-christmas-tree-using-710-baubles-729865\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most beard baubles in a beard<\/a> (710) that spurred her on to finally fulfil her childhood dream.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old was aiming to get at least 400 tees in her hair and almost doubled it.<\/p>\n<p>She told us: \u201cJoel [Strasser] is definitely the GOAT of beard records. I followed his journey and I\u2019m just honestly inspired by how unique, creative and funny he is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis creativity gave me the push to be like, \u2018Okay let\u2019s do something crazy too, I can be the golf girl version of Joel Strasser\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/most-golf-tees-in-hair-anya-getting-help-from-friends.jpg\" alt=\"Anya getting help from friends to put golf tees in her hair\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo thank you, Joel for inspiring me to do something goofy with my hair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anya said placing all of the golf tees in her hair took a lot of \u201cpatience, precision and engineering magic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Her tactic was putting her hair in pigtails then recruiting two friends to help her slip golf tees into every single available space.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It took them just over 47 minutes to get them all in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was definitely a work of art,\u201d Anya laughed. \u201cMy friends were calling me the \u2018Golf Tee Goddess\u2019 because I kind of looked like I had a big crown on my head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anya, who is \u201cobsessed\u201d with golfing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/katanastrong\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shares her adventures on the green on social media<\/a>, said she knew her record had to be something to do with the sport.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/most-golf-tees-in-hair-anya-from-behind.jpg\" alt=\"Anya from behind\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cI\u2019ve always dreamed of being in the Guinness World Records book, that\u2019s totally been a dream of mine. I wanted to create something around the golf world and thought this would be a great idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels truly amazing and I\u2019m so honoured to be part of the Guinness World Records family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t even tell you how excited I am, I\u2019ve dreamt about this my whole life and now that I\u2019m part of it I\u2019m so grateful. \u201c<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/most-golf-tees-in-hair-anya-posing.jpg\" alt=\"Anya posing\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Anya hopes her wacky world record will inspire others to chase their craziest dreams.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cIf you have a dream just do it, get out there, don\u2019t be afraid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s golf tees in the hair or something else, always believe in yourself and just go for it and you might end up with a world record too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/most-golf-tees-in-hair-anya-with-hair-full.jpg\" alt=\"Anya with her hair full of golf tees\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                \t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A golfer who dreamed of breaking a world record knew exactly what to do after seeing Joel Strasser&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,22064,22059,22063,22061,22062,22060,85],"class_list":["post-21733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-golf-records","tag-guinness-world-records","tag-hair-records","tag-joel-strasser","tag-joel-strasser-records","tag-most-golf-tees-in-the-hair","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}