The putts seen around the world
The video of nine students in Campbell University’s PGA Golf Management University Program (CUPGM) making nine putts in one hole has been picked by so many news organizations that it might be easier to list who hasn’t reported on it.
As one measure of the video’s popularity: On Monday morning, the video on CUPGM’s You Tube channel had been viewed about 19,000 times. By 9 a.m. on Tuesday, it had been viewed more than 126,000 times. (10 a.m. update: The video has now been viewed by more than 132,000.)
Below is a list of some of the stories we’ve found about the trick shot. Add your own link to a story you found in the comments.
- Sports Illustrated’s Golf.com: VIDEO: Watch nine putts go into same hole at same time
- CNN: Watch a “putting conga line”
- The Golf Channel: 9 putt Campbell University viral video
- USA Today: Nine golfers make incredible one-hole putt (VIDEO)
- ABC’s Good Morning America: 9 golfers putt 9 balls into 1 hole
- New York Daily News: Holy Hole in One times nine! Golfers sink simultaneous putts in same hole
- Sky Sports: Crazy golf
- Yahoo Sports’ The Post Game: Nine golfers combine for an awesome putt
- BuzzFeed Sports: Nine Golfers, One Hole, No Problem
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Amazing Golf Shot
- Inside Edition: Video Captures 9 Golfers Sinking Simultaneous Putts On Single Hole
- The Huffington Post UK: Nine Golfers Trick Shot
- Huffington Post Sports: Campbell University Seniors Make Amazing Golf Shot
- The (Raleigh) News & Observer: From the Web: 9 in-line simultaneous putts into one hole
- The Fayetteville Observer: Campbell University golfers “9 Putts, 1 Hole” video goes viral
- Triangle Business Journal: Campbell’s conga line golf shot
- Deadspin: 9 Golfers, 1 Cup
- Links Magazine: A Quick Nine
- Web Pro News: Nine Balls, One Hole Is Totally Just a Cool Golf Video, I Promise
- Back Nine Network: 9 Putts, 1 Cup
- Freebirdie: 9 Putts Into One Hole-Campbell University PGAM
- MSN.com: It takes nine golfers to pull off this one amazing trick shot
- Anchorfan: Incredible golf trick shot at Campbell University goes viral
- Digital Spy: Golf trick goes viral – watch video
- Crave Online: 9 Golfers Sink Simultaneous Putts In Same Hole
- The Inquisitr: Nine Golfers Make Incredible One-Hole Putt Simultaneously
- Joe.ie: The best golf trick shot you’ll see today
- 23ABC News (Bakersfield, Calif.): Nine Campbell University golfers all sink their simultaneous putts in the same hole
- (Salt Lake City) Desert News: 9 putts in one?Campbell University pulls it off
- ABC 7 (Detroit, MI): Hole-in-nine putt video: Campbell University PGA Golf Management program’s 9-way putt goes viral
- Fox 8 (Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem): Watch Campbell University golfers sink 9 simultaneous putts
- The Daily Mail (Great Britain): The incredible moment NINE golfers sink simultaneous putts in the SAME HOLE
- Bleacher Report: 9 golfers sink 9 putts into same hole, video as amazing as it sounds
- Death and Taxes Mag: Watch 9 guys simultaneously sink putts in the same hole
- 3 News (New Zealand): VIDEO: Nine men putt golf balls into same hole in a row
And here’s ESPN’s tweet about it:
9 golfers, 9 putters, 9 golf balls, 9 makes. You have to see this to believe it -> youtu.be/hNZnlcOOz00
And here’s a sports site out of Paris, France, tweeting about it:
A voir leurs réactions, ils ont battus un record. Les étudiants de @campbelledu ont rentré 9 putts en même temps.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZnlc…!
Photo caption: The nine Campbell University students who made the trick shot and the camera operator who recorded it. Top row, from left to right: Patrick Bindel, Ben Polland, Patrick Carter, Mike Turck, Matt Foster (camera man), Nathan Mead and Jacob Wine. Bottom row, left to right: Ryan King, Taylor Ray and Mark Valenti.
