A million yards is almost the distance from Land’s End to John O’Groats as the crow flies.<\/p>\n
On Friday, a team of nine self-described “extremely average” golfers is attempting to cover that distance in just 24 hours, hitting golf balls almost continuously to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK.<\/p>\n
The challenge, taking place at a golf venue in Hinckley, will see the group use a simulator to record every shot as they target a world-record distance of one million yards.<\/p>\n
To achieve it, the team will need to average a 200-yard shot every eight to 10 seconds for an entire day.<\/p>\n
“We are not good so there is going to be a lot of blood, sweat and tears,” said organiser Richard Adams.<\/p>\n
“We will even have a masseuse available and a DJ.”<\/p>\n
Rather than playing full rounds of golf, the challenge relies on technology that measures the speed and spin of each shot before calculating how far it would have travelled.<\/p>\n
“We need technology, because if you hit a golf ball on average 200 yards, that is two football fields, and you can’t walk two football fields in eight to 10 seconds,” Adams said.<\/p>\n
The golfers will rotate throughout the challenge, each hitting balls for five or 10 minutes at a time before handing over to the next person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A million yards is almost the distance from Land’s End to John O’Groats as the crow flies. On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}