Joel Dahmen and Geno Bonnalie have rapidly turn into one of the crucial standard player-caddie duos on the PGA Tour, however there’s a feat Bonnalie’s completed that a few of his followers may not even learn about.
What number of caddies can say they’re within the Guinness World Data e-book?
Bonnalie was the visitor on this week’s Subpar Podcast, and in his look he talked about working with Netflix throughout “Full Swing,” life on the street and plenty extra. And one of many subjects that got here up was the truth that Bonnalie at one level held three Guinness World Data: Most holes of golf performed in per week (2,000), most birdies made in per week (493), and most birdies made in 12 hours (67).
Though solely a kind of continues to be a document, which is the 493 birdies in per week.
“I believed my 67 birdies in 12 hours was actually good, however there was a loophole in that that I didn’t take into consideration on the time that you might play 18 par-5s and set them on the shortest distance,” he mentioned. “The course [I played] was nonetheless semi-short, but it surely needed to be over 6,000 yards per Guinness pointers. So clearly 6,000 is brief, however you possibly can play a bunch of 420-yard par-5s I suppose and make a pile of birdies.”
Lots went into getting these within the document books, too. He needed to have two impartial scorekeepers always, and so they couldn’t work for greater than 4 consecutive hours. He additionally needed to have his scorecards backed up by affidavits stating he made the scores he did. And he needed to mail in a whole bunch of scorecards and abstract sheets.
“It was a number of work,” he mentioned. “It was fairly the endeavor.”
You possibly can watch the whole interview with Bonnalie on YouTube beneath.
