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An Interesting Golf Hole $1,000,000 For Hole In One
June 7th, 2009 | 
Author: For all the golf enthusiasts, professionals Extreme golf:
Forget pitch and putt – this tee-off point on top of a 430m mountain in South Africa is the hardest golf shot in the world, and more than $US1 million awaits the player who can score a hole in one. Players must take a helicopter to the top to play the longest – and highest – par three on the planet. Taking the shot also requires courage – a player needs to teeter terrifyingly close to the edge of the mammoth hillside.
Indeed, the Extreme 19th Hole is so high the ball takes almost 30 seconds to reach the ground. Channel Nine cricket commentator Mark Nicholas recently joined an elite list to have the shot in just three swings. “It was awesome, riveting and phenomenal,” he said. “It’s like the end of the world when you get up there and it’s an awful lot of fun. “It’s such an adrenalin rush taking the helicopter up and then rushing back down.” The hole is based at the Legends Golf and Safari Resort, within the Entabeni Safari Conservancy in South Africa ‘s north-eastern Limpopo Province . The other 18 holes were designed by world golfing legends including Trevor Immelman, Sergio Garcia, Padraig Harrington and Australia ‘s Robert Allenby.
A round of golf – including a buggy and lunch – will set you back R450 ($A70).
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Tags: 10 Gorgeous Women In Sport
If there’s one thing men love more than sport, it’s watching the gorgeous women in it. And I mean this in a totally non-sexual way, mostly. Okay, so they are hot and sweaty and wear short, slinky outfits, but over the next eight pages you will learn that these women have gotten to wherever they are because of true grit, grace and perseverance.
The women in tennis lead the way. Long before Anna Kournikova sold the world sports bras telling us why “only the tennis ball should bounce on court”, there was Gabriella Sabatini whose androgynous beauty endeared her to us and whose inability to get past Steffi Graf made us almost hate the German and mind you, she wasn’t bad looking either. However, the arrival of Kournikova in the 90s heralded a change in the way women in sport were viewed. Here was a blonde who was good looking enough to make people forget even today that she never won a single title of any repute. And on that note and to celebrate the spirit of the summer Olympics this month, we present to you our round-up of the hottest women athletes today. 
Yelena Isinbayeva Age: 26 Sport: Athletics (pole vault) Why we picked her: The brunette from Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) has 22 world records to her credit. She is the first female pole vaulter to breach the 5m mark and has the grace and finesse of a gymnast thanks to her early years of gymnastics training. Yelena is easily the most accomplished athlete of her generation, she won the pole vault gold at Athens and is the best bet for this year’s gold at Beijing. And to top it all, she looks good enough to be in the movies. 
Ana Ivanovic Age: 20 Sport: Tennis Why we picked her: We only remember three occasions in the history of women’s tennis when the no. 1 ranking has been held by a gorgeous woman – Steffi Graf, Maria Sharapova and now Ana Ivanovic as we went to press. The tall Serbian’s girl-next-door charm and attitude has earned her a multitude of male fans. With a Grand Slam victory at the French Open this year and a possible shot at an Olympic gold in Beijing, it’s no surprise that her country has even put her pretty figure on Serbia’s postage stamps.
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