Frenchman Thomas Levet wound-up his 500th European Tour event breezing around the Emirates course in two hour a and nine minutes on the final day of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.
Levet was the first player out at 7.10am and he walked from the course at 9.19am having shot a one over par 73 for a level par tally
“It was an easy walk around the course and I didn’t really hurry at all as I was taking practice swings on every shot, as I normally do,” said Levet.
The second group of Tom Lewis and Simon Dyson were on the 10th hole when Levet was handing in his card and with the Frenchman back on the practice range long before the final group had teed off at 12.40pm.
Thomas Levet being Thomas Levet earlier this week during the Jebel Ali Challenge. (Photo – Eoin Clarke/www.golffile.ie)
It’s uncertain if Levet’s round is a record on the European Tour however it known that Greg Norman and Mark O’Meara played the final round of the 1998 Nabisco Championship (Tour Championship) at Pebble Beach in 1 hour 24 minutes.
The pair both shot 79s to finish 29th and 30th respectively, last but one and last.
In his defence, Norman was trying to catch a ‘plane to Australia before bad weather threatened to cancel the flight.
The players received a warning, but no fine, and both went away with winnings of $32,400.
In 1947 Masters, Gene Sarazen and George Fazio shot 70 and 76 respectively, going round Augusta National in 1 hour 57 minutes, and finishing tied 26th and tied 39th.
Slightly quicker, in 1960 George Bayer and Jack Fleck shot 72 and 74 in 1 hour 52 minutes, on the way to finishing tied 29th and tied 34th
A Google search revealed Californian Steve Scott, the American record-holder in the mile and 1,500-meter run, shot a 92 in playing what is being called the fastest round of golf in history.
Using only two clubs, Scott played the 6,025-yard, par-71 H.G. Miller Golf Course in 29 minutes 33.05 seconds, according to the course manager, Frank Pepito, who said that Scott was timed by two stopwatches and also clocked by Pepito.
