If Major League Baseball officials want to address the pace-of-play issue, they ought to contact Eric Byrnes.
The former A’s outfielder (and current eccentric) played 245 golf holes in a 12-hour span recently to lay claim to a new world record.
Playing without a cart, Byrnes ran an estimated 66.5 miles during the Napa Valley Speed Golf Challenge on April 21. In kind of a cross between “Caddyshack” and “Chariots of Fire,” the former outfielder used one club the entire time: an 8-iron.
“The strategy was to hit it short and in a direct line to the hole so I didn’t have to run too far out of the way,” Byrnes explained via text message.