Stadium Golf

I’ve never got to first base on the golf course, but if you play the Links at Petco Park you’ll be able to go all the way. All the way to third base that is, as it’s as far as we know, it’s the first golf course built within a baseball stadium.

It's a nine hole layout, and  players will tee off from various parts of the San Diego Padres stadium into the middle of the field.

The course starts with a putting green in the Padres' home dugout. Golfers then hit from the  upper deck for holes two through five hitting shots onto the playing field. The next tee, hole six, is on the field level near the Western Metal Supply Co. building. Hole seven's tee is in centerfield and hole eight is a putting shot in the bullpen. The hole hole tees off from the rootop of the Western Metal Supply Co. building. 

The Links will be open to the public November 6-8, 2015 and cost $100 for a two ball and $200 for a fourball.

Just picture this concept coming to the UK. Pitch from Jose’s dugout at Stamford Bridge. Millwall fans playing golf at the New Den on match days. Or how about teeing off from the top of Twickenham? Now that’s a hell of a drop to a green. 

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