Unbelievable Facts - Strange Facts - The Name of the Game

American golfer Maud McInnes took 166 strokes at a par-3 hole in 1912 after her tee shot landed in the river. As the ball floated away, she climbed into a bot andtried to play out on to dry land She eventually succeed a mile and a half down-stream.

Identical twins John and Desmond Rosser scored holes-in-ones in consecutive rounds while playing at New Zealand ’s Auckland Golf Club in 1975.

American boxer Daniel Caruso psyched himself up before a 1992 fight by pounding his gloves into his own face before the introductions. Unfortunately he overdid it and broke his nose. The doctor ruled Caruso unfit to box.

Disorientated by the wheeling of a scrum, Brunei rugby player Dick Dover ran 75 yards to touch down unchallenged . . . beneath his own posts.

Competing in the 1979 Pan-American games, Wallace Williams of the Virgin Islands was so slow that by the time he had reached the stadium, it was locked and everyone had gone home.

In 1914, J.N. Farrar accepted a bet that he could complete a round at Royston golf Club in under 100 … while carrying full infantry equipment, including rifle, haversack, field kit and water bottle. He shot a 94.

Australian golfer Rufus Stewart played 18 holes in total darkness in 1931 without losing a single ball. He went round in 77.

Australian swimmer Fanny Durack once held every women’s world record in the sport from 50 yards to a mile.

The 1972 Bandama Motor Rally in West Africa was so tough that nobody finished.

James Carvill completed 18 holes of the 6154-yard Warrenpoint Golf Course, County Down , in just over 27 minutes in 1987.

A Danish rugby union match in 1973 saw Comet beat Lindo 194-0.

Preparing to take on Al Couture at Lewiston , Maine , in 1946, boxer Ralph Walton was knocked out while still adjusting his gum shield in his corner. The fight officially ended after 10½ seconds – and that included the 10-second count.

At Woking golf Club in 1972, two players finished their match all square despite not halving a single hole. The odds against that happening are 1,413,398 to 1.

Mexican skier Roberto Alvarez finished so far behind in the cross-country event at the 1988 Winter Olympics that worried officials sent out a search party to look for him.

Rick Sorensen completed 18 holes of Meadowbrook golf Club, Minneapolis , in 86 strokes . . . even though he was blindfolded. Unfortunately it wasn’t enough to prevent him losing $70 on a bet.

In 1976, Greece ’s Dimitrion Yordanidis finished a marathon in Athens in 7hr 33min. He was 98.

In 1971, Nicolette Milnes-Walker, a 28-year-old research psychologist at the University of Wales , sailed the Atlantic single-handed . . . and in the nude.

A golfer in Massachusetts got a hole in one after his ball stopped on the rim of the cup but was helped in by an earth tremor.

The fight between Mike Collins and Pat Brownson at Minneapolis in 1947 lasted just four seconds. Collins floored his opponent with the very first punch and the contest was stopped without a count.

In 1935, athlete Jesse Owens set six world records in 45 minutes. At 3.15pm, he shattered the world 100 yards record; ten minutes later, he set a new standard for the long jump; at 3.45 he broke the record for both the 220 yards and 22 metres; and at 4pm, he smashed the record for the 220 yard and 200 metre low hurdles.

In the men’s singles final of the 1987 All-England Badminton Championships between Morten Frost of Denmark and Indonesia ’s Icuk Sigiarto, there were two successive rallies of over 90 strokes.

In the face of searing heat at the 1950 Tour de France, Abd-El Kader Zaag drank a bottle of wine and promptly fell of his bike. After sleeping it off by the roadside, he climbed back in the saddle and sped off - in the wrong direction.

Golfer Jack Nicklaus holed a 110ft putt at the 1964 Tournament of Champions.

Playing at Rickmansworth Golf Club over Easter 1960, Mrs Paddy Martin achieved three holes in one – on Good Friday, Saturday, and Easter Monday. All three came at the 125-yard 3 rd hole with the same club and ball.

Diana Gordon-Lennox of Canada took part in the slalom and downhill at the Winter Olympics despite having to ski with one arm in a plaster cast.

Cuban postman Felix Carvajal would have won the bronze medal in the 1904 Olympoic marathon had he not stopped to pick unripe fruit from an orchard. The indigestion relegated him to fourth.

A golfer in Ontario saw his tee shot some to rest on the edge of the hole. Just as he was cursing hi sluck, a butterfly landed in the ball and toppled it into the cup for a hole in one.