{"id":143624,"date":"2023-10-18T12:54:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T10:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mygolfway.com\/?p=143624"},"modified":"2023-10-18T12:54:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T10:54:43","slug":"ecco-golf-ambassador-patrick-koenig-smashes-world-record-with-450-golf-courses-played-in-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/ecco-golf-ambassador-patrick-koenig-smashes-world-record-with-450-golf-courses-played-in-year\/","title":{"rendered":"ECCO Golf \u2013 Ambassador Patrick Koenig smashes World Record with 450 golf courses played in a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygolfway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ECCO-Record-Koenig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-143618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mygolfway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ECCO-Record-Koenig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hundreds-wordpress-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/mygolfway\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ECCO-Record-Koenig.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hundreds-wordpress-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/mygolfway\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ECCO-Record-Koenig-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>October 18, 2023 &#8211; <\/strong><strong>ECCO Golf<\/strong>\u00a0ambassador <strong>Patrick Koenig<\/strong> has today successfully broken the World Record for the most different 18-hole golf courses played in a single year as he completed the 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0hole of his <strong>450<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0golf course this year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Koenig&#8217;s remarkable journey, <strong>&#8216;The RGV Tour 2.0,&#8217;<\/strong> has been a monumental endeavour \u2013 he originally set himself the target of playing a staggering 500 golf courses across a 365 day period \u2013 and is set to complete that tally ahead of the Tour\u2019s finale in January. His passion and determination have now rewritten the record books, surpassing the previous record of 449 courses set back in 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygolfway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Patrick-Koenig-Record-with-ECCO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-143620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mygolfway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Patrick-Koenig-Record-with-ECCO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hundreds-wordpress-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/mygolfway\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Patrick-Koenig-Record-with-ECCO.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hundreds-wordpress-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/mygolfway\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Patrick-Koenig-Record-with-ECCO-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout the challenge, Koenig exclusively relied on <strong>ECCO Golf shoes<\/strong>, and has fully utilised the brand\u2019s exceptional comfort and durability throughout the world record attempt. Koenig commented: <em>\u201cThere are no other golf shoes that I would rather have played 450 different golf courses in besides ECCO. They are comfortable, perform exceptionally well and are built to last. It\u2019s the perfect recipe for this world record achievement.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A world record day. The world record setting putt on #18 and selfie. My sister joined via FaceTime. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ydL9UnNayJ\">pic.twitter.com\/ydL9UnNayJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patrick Koenig (@patrickjkoenig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patrickjkoenig\/status\/1714482397230542871?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Timo Vollrath<\/strong>, Head of Global Marketing at ECCO Golf, expressed his admiration for Koenig\u2019s remarkable feat, commenting: <em>\u201cWe\u2019re really proud to have partnered with Patrick during his World Record attempt. It\u2019s a great honour to support Patrick during a year in which he spent a lot of time in his golf shoes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u201cHuge congratulations to Patrick for this incredible achievement, and we are delighted that ECCO Golf shoes have completed the record-breaking 450 courses with him!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>More information at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.holidaygolf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.holidaygolf.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 18, 2023 &#8211; ECCO Golf\u00a0ambassador Patrick Koenig has today successfully broken the World Record for the most different 18-hole golf courses played in a single year as he completed the 18th\u00a0hole of his 450th\u00a0golf course this year. Koenig&#8217;s remarkable journey, &#8216;The RGV Tour 2.0,&#8217; has been a monumental endeavour \u2013 he originally set himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":143619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,155,917],"class_list":["post-143624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecco-golf-en","category-holiday-golf-en","category-mygolfguay-golfstyle-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.100x100.net\/projects\/mygolfway\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}