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In an effort reminiscent of North Korean elections, a South Korean company building a golf course in the North's Geumgang Mountains has created a bizarre hole where the ball will careen into the cup as long as the golfer lands his shot anywhere on the green.
"Considering the symbolism of the Diamond Country Club, which is 45 percent complete, we plan to make a 'hole-in-one green' where golfers get a hole in one as long as they put the ball on the green," said Chang Gi-dae, the chairman of Emerson Pacific which is building the course.
The green is found on the par-3 (155m) fourteenth and shaped like a bowl, so as long as a shot lands on the green, it will drop into the cup. "The green won't be used every day. We plan to use it on special days or for special people."
The course would also feature a par-7 hole that is the longest in Asia. At 1,004 yards (918 meters), the Diamond Country Club's seventh would be 40 yards longer than the current record holder seventh (par 7, 964 yards) of the Sano Course of Japan's Satsuki Golf Club. But Emerson Pacific said it would be three yards shorter than the 1,007-yard par-6 sixth of Chocolay Downs Golf Course in the U.S. state of Michigan, the world's longest hole.
Chang said the course will officially open around the end of 2006.
(Park Ju-yeon, park21@chosun.com )
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