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Balls travel significantly further on hot days
The course record of 66 for men is held by Ken Anderson, held since 1981
Hard hitting Tour professional with a swing speed of, say, 120mph, the ball will be in contact with the face for about half of a thousandth of a second
Darwin Golf Club - the 18 hole Championship Golf Course was designed for the tropics by Peter Thomson and Michael Wolveridge
Before leaving a bunker, players should carefully fill up and smooth over all holes and footprints they have made
Approximately 29.2million rounds of golf are played every year in Australia
Etiquette states golfers should not spend more than five minutes searching for a lost ball
A regulation golf ball has an average of 336 dimples
There are approximately 1530 golf courses in Australia
Yun Jye Wei from Chinese Taipei scored the women’s course record of 70 during the 1997 Arafura Games
The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million

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Golf Contact

For further information on the Arafura Games Golf competition, please contact;

Contact Name: Ms Jenny Chaplin
Organisation: Golf NT
Postal Address: PO Box 37083, Winnellie NT 0821 Australia
Phone: +61 8 8927 7625
Fax: +61 8 8927 6950
Email: golf@arafuragames.net
Website: www.golfnt.org.au