Manitoba golfers to tee off for world record attempt Monday

A brace of occidental Manitoba golfers are hoping to group a world grounds by trying to play an unprecedented magnitude of golf.

Patrick Law and Dylan Thornborough opportunity they’re aiming for 307 holes of play successful a azygous time arsenic portion of this year’s 12th yearly Marathon Monday — an arena that has raised much than $144,000 for crab investigation since its inception.

The existent world grounds is 306 holes played successful 12 hours. Last year, nan Manitobans tackled 225 holes — short of nan record, but still an awesome magnitude of golf, and a immense summation from their inaugural Marathon Monday successful 2012, successful which they played a specified (by comparison) 126 holes.

This year, they say, they’ll beryllium stepping up their crippled for nan grounds effort astatine Glenboro Golf Course, southbound of Carberry, Man. — very acquainted turf for some golfers.

“We some grew up connected that play course, truthful we’ve sewage our roots beautiful heavy successful that place,” Law told 680 CJOB’s The Start.

“That’s wherever we started doing this successful 2012, truthful we thought it was nan logical choice. We person a batch of nosy pinch it each twelvemonth and they dainty america really good there.”

To meet nan goal, nan duo are getting a spot of thief successful nan shape of drivers who will beryllium shuttling them from spread to spread to support up nan pace.

“We’re not utilized to playing that many,” Thornborough said. “It’s a large jump for us, but we’re excited to do it.”

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“This twelvemonth really we person immoderate drivers who are going to thrust us, we’re going to beryllium successful abstracted carts conscionable to spell arsenic quickly arsenic possible. In nan past, we’ve ever rode together.

“It’s a agelong day, and we’re (usually) by ourselves, but this year, for nan velocity we request to go, we’ve added immoderate other help.”

Law and Thornborough said they’ll beryllium doing a believe tally Sunday earlier attempting nan existent point nan adjacent day.

More accusation astir nan yearly arena and really to donate to nan origin is disposable connected nan Marathon Monday website.