Golf Clubs – Records – Programmer sets Disc Golf World Record

John and Alan prove that even amateur golf players can break records!

Its not just the professional golfers that can break records in the golfing world, John Kretzschmar and Alan Hansen Begg have proved this when they broke the world record for disc golf. Being just an amateur golfer, John has a day job working as a Computer Programmer, so it was quite an achievement for him to be able to juggle his career whilst also excel at a sport he loves - swinging his golf clubs.

Not many amateur golf players at the age of only 28 will be able to say they broke a world record, but John and Alan did just that on Sunday 27th June 2004. John Kretzschmar of St. Paul, Minnesota, and Alan Hansen Begg of Watertown, Minnesota, worked their golf clubs furiously completing 327 holes of disc golf in a single day to break the previous world record of 306 set in 2003 by two men from Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Kretzschmar began to suffer leg cramps at around 10:00 a.m. and was forced to stop playing at about 8:30 p.m. when the pain became too intense to continue. Alan Hansen Begg, the other member of Kretzchmar’s twosome, went on to complete 380 holes to guarantee them as the new world record holders. Few golfers are as passionate about disc golf as Alan Hansen Begg and Alan and John have taken their golf clubs around 31 courses from Shakopee to Sartell throughout their amateur golf careers so far.

John and Alan’s goal was to break the record of 306, set last year in the Twin Cities by Steven Dodge and David Wold of Fredericksburg, Va. Their journey started at 4:48 a.m. at the 18-hole Lions Park course in Shakopee and concluded at 9:36 p.m. at the 12-hole Mississippi River course in Sartell. Accompanying Hansen Begg and Kretzschmar were their wives, who served as driver and navigator, chiropractor Kevin Berg, acupuncturist Aaron Van Brunt, several others, and of course, their golf clubs!

It is well documented that Minnesotans are extremely dedicated golf players and golf experts rank the state as having the second highest amount of golfers living in it, not to mention the amount of golf clubs that must reside there! This can also be said for disc golf which is becoming an extremely popular sport in Minnesota, so naturally the Minnesotans were thrilled to see local Americans from their state gain this prestigious world record in golf.

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