- Hottest day in 113 years.
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Whew, I'm curious, I feel like my heartbeat's fast.
Whew!
That's tiring.
It's hot, okay.
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- Today is Thursday, August 18th,
and yesterday was the hottest day in 113 years.
And today it is supposed to be hotter than that.
It reached 130 degrees here in Furnace Creek,
or Death Valley, California.
And I thought I would do a crazy golf challenge.
I wanna play 18 holes in the hottest temperatures
in the world.
Today it's gonna be 125 to 130 degrees here.
Right now, we're 214 feet below sea level
and this is the lowest course in the world.
I basically just wanna survive this.
Right now it's 10 o'clock in the morning
and it's 113 degrees.
By the time that we finish this 18 holes,
it should be close to 125 to 130 degrees temperature.
Right now we are with Jordan, he is the head pro
at Furnace Creek Golf Club.
How did it go yesterday?
- Yesterday was a little toasty, it was about 129.
- [Dan] Did anybody golf?
- No one golfed yesterday.
- [Dan] Not one person.
- Not one person.
- In order to get a tee time,
they asked me if I wanted to play anytime
between 6:30 and 10:00 a.m.
Do you close it down when it's this hot
because you just don't want people teeing off after 10 a.m.?
- Yes, that's really,
after 10 o'clock it's just too deathly.
- I told my kids, I was going to Death Valley, California.
They didn't know what Death Valley was and they just said,
"Dad, please don't die."
That is goal number one is to not die today.
Goal number two is to play 18 holes
in the hottest temperatures that the world has seen.
Hunter's gonna help keep an eye on me to make sure I'm safe.
We're gonna be driving in a cart that has some shade.
We have tons of water bottles I brought.
I think we need to fill these bad boys up.
- Yeah, we definitely need to fill 'em up.
But my whole job today is to keep Dan hydrated
and hydrated by using the What's Inside water bottles.
You can go to what'sinsidemerch.com.
- Look at that plug.
He's already pluggin' the water bottles.
Let's get some water.
Let's get some sunscreen
And then let's tee off.
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They don't even have the blue tees anywhere.
It's just white.
So yeah, I'm playin' from white.
Only person out here.
How long is it gonna take?
(golf club pings)
And we're in the fairway.
First shot.
Let's do this.
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The 150 marker.
We are 400 out, so I just hit my driver 250.
That's pretty good, but I definitely lost about 35 yards.
156, I'm gonna go with the eight iron.
Let's see if there's any difference in flight.
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(golf club pings)
Right on the money with the distance.
I just pushed it way right.
There's the green, here's the next tee box.
Wow, the rough.
They actually do a really good job, at keeping it wet here.
And apparently this is the low point for this entire area.
So there's like almost like a natural springs of water.
It's not like they're pumping it in
and wasting water from somewhere.
This water is here and it exists.
It's just this natural oasis.
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(Dan chuckles)
Well, luckily these greens are incredibly thick right now,
like a sponge, because I hit that ball way too hard
and ended up looking like the perfect lag putt.
We started off with a bogey, we're one over.
It may not be my low round
even though it's the lowest course in the world.
But hey, this is fun.
This is like a bucket-list thing,
I'm checking off the list right now.
One hole in, time to drink some water
and onto the next.
We've got a sprinkler attacking us here in the tee box.
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I'm on the green, but I'm like
on the very back of the green.
All right, let's go.
I feel a little fatigued.
So will we complete 18 holes?
I'm not sure yet, but I'm not gonna push my luck.
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Come on, whew hoo, these are some slow greens.
I thought I hit that too hard.
I didn't even make it up the hill.
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Get in there.
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Okay, there's a dead bee and a bunch of water in the cup.
Bogey, bogey, pars and birdies are comin'.
All right, the third hole is a 404-yard par four.
But if you look out there, it looks really far
and the ball's not flying as far.
And we're into the wind on this hole.
It's humid out here.
You wouldn't think it's so humid.
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Ripped it, still doesn't fly far.
That was about as good as I can hit it.
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Got up in the wind.
Didn't go as far as I was hopin'.
Left it like a club short.
That was 157, I should have hit a seven iron.
Might be able to get par.
Gotta get up and down from about 25 feet.
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Gave it extra and I still didn't get it there.
(crowd gasps)
(Hunter applauds)
Well, if you came here to watch three putts,
you are in the right place.
These greens are like nothin' I've putt on before.
I tried to give that one a bit extra,
just so I could make it to the hole
and not leave it short again,
and then it broke to the right.
Three holes in, three bogeys.
But, I feel like all of those were makeable pars.
I should have been able to make par.
So pars and birdies are comin', I'm confident.
I'm feelin' better.
- [Hunter] Water break.
- After every hole.
I'm gonna bet on this shot getting right by the hole.
And I'm putting it between me and the hole.
There's a chance that the ball hits the drone in the air,
which would be pretty cool.
Or there's a chance I hit it and then it rolls up
and goes in the hole and we get a really cool angle of it.
So it says on the card, we've got 142 yards.
It is playing in the very, very back.
So I'm gonna use my laser just to make sure.
I mean, if I'm gonna get a hole in one,
got the drone there, every yard counts.
150 playing 147.
This actually this Bushnell, I just got it.
It's about a year old.
It measures the humidity in the air
and it measures the elevation that you're at.
And then it calculates what it should do.
I thought that it would be a little different,
like 150 playing 147, I would think it would be like,
150 playing 155, so I'm startin' to question
this whole Bushnell thing.
- [Hunter] You get a hole in one,
you're giving away 10 water bottles.
- I'll give away 10 backpacks if I get a hole in one.
How about that?
All right, pitching wedge,
about 140 yards.
(golf club pings)
Pretty good a little left.
Gotta go.
- [Hunter] You're starting' to huff and puff.
How are you feelin'?
- Good, I got water.
Not a bad leave.
I don't know, 30 feet maybe.
If I can get a two putt par,
that'd be a good start to this round.
I might be close enough.
Ladies and gentlemen on the fourth hole,
we might have my first par.
Takin' the flag stick out.
I've been known to miss many putts from this distance.
This is no gimme.
Oh, it started to wobble.
Par baby! There's a par.
I don't want to yell too loud 'cause it takes energy.
I need to conserve all my energy.
Par baby!
Drink water and try not to run.
Don't get to amped.
Par baby!
It's one thing you can't tell on YouTube videos,
it's really difficult to see how hot it is
and how humid it is in different places.
And even when you're watching like professionals play golf,
you gotta take that into account.
Like where are they playing?
How hot and humid it is.
Obviously it's no Death Valley,
but it might be a little rougher conditions
than what you think it is.
And those guys are walkin'.
I'm not walkin' today.
I've got my Erik Anders Lang Random Golf Club Jones bag here
that I love.
It's super light, perfect for walking,
but I have no shame in taking a golf cart today.
It's getting hotter in the day.
I don't even know what the temperature is.
It just feels muggy and hot and humid and heavy.
The air feels heavy.
Trouble on the left, white stake out of bounds Death Valley.
Right just has some dirt.
(golf club pings)
Keep it in the fairway.
(golf club pings)
A little left,
but looks like it's on green grass.
We're movin', movin' down the longest hole so far.
Whew, it's hot.
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Pure death.
That's all that's out here.
Death.
Look at those trees.
Other than this little water hole right here, that's runoff.
You just have dead trees out there.
Why did I just climb up that 20-foot hill?
That's tiring.
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Get left buddy.
Get left.
- [Hunter] Take 'em Dan.
- Let's see how hot it is.
Well, it's 114 and it feels like 114.
I'm not that far off for being a par five.
I've got a birdie opportunity.
Do birdies live in the desert?
Dad joke.
Here we go.
Par, par.
Sixth hole, 421 yards.
Another par four.
We've got water all along the left
and lots of dirt on the side.
It looks a little tight up there.
Nice little walkway, pathway up to the tee box.
And then there's ducks.
There's a pond right there.
It looks tight.
It's almost like there's two fairways.
But gonna try to stay right of that tree.
(golf club pings)
Perfect.
About as good as I can hit a driver, right there.
- [Hunter] It sounded pretty.
- I'm usually not a fan of putting my head covers on
during the round, but with it being so hot,
I think I'd burn my hand on the top of my driver head
if I didn't do it.
♪ They see me rollin' ♪
- Caddie notes.
The seat is so hot.
It's gotta be like 120 degrees.
It is crazy hot in these golf carts
and just keeps getting hotter and hotter.
- Most courses when you see this in the fairway,
it's considered ground under repair, but it's not marked.
I feel bad hitting from this.
I would imagine they're gonna try to grow stuff.
- [Hunter] I think you should move to the fairway.
Just be courteous of the course.
- It looks like it's ground under repair.
Like that at most courses on the fairway.
I mean this is the fairway.
Look at the line, the cut of it.
Pitching wedge goes like 135, 140, but into the wind,
I'm gonna go pitching wedge.
Let's see if we can get this there.
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Bermuda grass just grabs your club.
We don't have that where I live.
Gotta learn how to golf in Bermuda.
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I kind of have given the distance here, that was not bad.
I'm happy about a bogey.
Maybe I'm startin' to learn
how to read these greens a little bit.
You know what that means?
Birdies are coming.
Hey Hunter, how many birdies do you think I'll have today?
Zero or one?
- I think you'll get at least one.
Miracles happen, right?
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(golf club pings)
- Whew!
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- That's exhausting.
Good thing I have a medical professional here,
watching and evaluating everything.
Oh, you know what?
I have his band right here, if I whoop.
And a lot of the pro golfers use it.
One of the things it does is it measures your heart rate.
I'm curious, I feel like my heart's beating fast.
Right now we're on the seventh hole, I just teed off.
My heart rate right now is 124.
I'm in the mild strain range, 60 to 70% heart rate.
When I turned it on, I was in the thirties,
which is 70 to 80%.
There it is right there, 121.
We're gonna keep an eye on that.
I think if it gets too much in the dangerous zone,
at some point, then we'll just have to call it.
So far, we are six holes in, four over,
and startin' to sweat,
and we're chippin' onto the green.
Let's go get a birdie.
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(golf club pings)
Or I'm gonna chunk it.
Well, chunks happen.
I don't know the last time I hit a shot that bad.
Is it okay to blame the heat?
I'm blamin' the heat.
Be a miracle to get this thing on the green.
(golf club pings)
Yup. - Miracles happen right?
- I'm fallin' apart here, boys.
It's okay to have one blow-up hole.
Let's just not turn into more after this.
(golf club pings)
That came out pure.
Ha, so predictable.
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Come back down the hill.
I hit that so hard.
On my home course that would have been off the green.
Kinda hopin' I had a back stop here and it would come back.
Triple bogey, but the good thing about
the Furnace Creek Golf Course is they know
this is about the time when you were gonna be feelin' it.
So they did something really nice.
They put a soda machine out here.
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(machine hums)
Bad news, it doesn't take fives.
I'm sitting here thinkin', I'll let you keep the change.
Thank goodness we do have some Powerades thanks to Jordan.
He gave us a couple drinks, Hunter.
There you go buddy.
- Thank you.
- And it's still cold, it was in a cooler with ice.
This is needed.
Seventh hole stretch.
It's so cold.
Like the drink it almost hurts.
I can feel it going all the way down my throat
into my stomach.
Oh man that is good.
Water's good, but if you're comin' out here to play,
get some Powerade or Gatorade.
I don't know how many of you would actually watch this video
and say, I need to go play that course.
I hope some of you would, but most likely
you're just watching this goin', this guy's an idiot.
- If you do play the course though, make sure to tag us.
- Have you noticed that Hunter loves shout outs?
He's always thinking social.
He runs like a lotta stuff on the backend of stuff.
So earlier he's like, if you go to What's Inside,
whatsinsidemerch.com, you can buy water bottles.
And now he's like, if you come here make sure to tag us
at What's Inside.
- It's true though.
That's the best part is connecting with guys
and like actually getting your thoughts.
So if you came here or did anything that we've ever recorded
like being able to share that moment with you is awesome.
- It would be nice to see it, as much as I tease him.
That would be nice to see
if you guys actually come play here, play at your own risk.
We are not telling you to come here.
If you come here and get sick and get heat stroke,
it's not our fault.
You've been warned.
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Okay, the eighth hole is a 145-yard par three
with lots of water on the left and lots of trees.
Can we get it close on a par three?
We parred one, let's see if we can get a birdie.
All right, I measured this one at 133.
It's a giant green and the pin's right on the front.
Yes, I have sunscreen all over my arm.
I didn't mean to do that.
Hopefully it's not too unpleasing to your eye.
At the same time, I'm tryin' to stay safe out here.
(golf club pings)
I keep missin' to the left.
It's like drawing over to the left.
All right, I'm down in the ditch, it said lots of water.
Surprise, surprise, we're in Death Valley,
there's no water in this stream.
I brought the wrong club, got a sand wedge.
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Hey, got a par putt.
Didn't go in.
That was so close, I missed it.
That was so close.
I was like finally I made a putt outside a few feet.
Boy, I'm pretty happy with that rescue shot from back there.
That was sweet.
- [Hunter] It was like a toilet.
It just went all around the cup and then popped out.
That's like one of those stories
that you tell your friends how it went
and they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But we actually got it on film.
- All right, this is the part of the day where we call,
this is the part of the day where we call Jordan.
It's around the eighth hole.
He said call him, when we get to the ninth hole.
I'm gonna ask him for more drinks.
Let's see what my stats are right now.
My heart rate, 138, 139 right now.
(phone rings)
- [Hunter] 118.
- 118.
We're on the eighth hole right now, ninth hole.
About to tee off on the ninth hole.
I've been hitting the driver pretty straight today, so.
(golf club pings)
(Dan chuckles)
Famous last words.
I've been hitting it pretty straight today.
Shanked to the left, hard to the left into the trees.
(playful music)
Well, we're out.
Pro tip, if you don't have a ball cleaner,
rub it on the bottom of the cart.
Sorry Furnace Creek Golf.
♪ They see me rollin' ♪
(golf club pings)
- It looked really good for a second there,
'til it rolled down a bit.
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These greens are so funny, they're so slow.
No excuses.
I think that's nine over, we're playin' bogey golf here.
I don't know how many strokes you give yourself
because of the conditions,
but you gotta give yourself a few.
I'm happy with that.
That's good for me,
but I definitely want to go lower on the next nine holes.
Okay, we're here at nine.
Let's go to the pro shop.
Could use a drink right now.
Hello?
Pro shop's closed.
Let's go to the 19th hole bar and grill.
Should try callin' Jordan.
He told us to call him.
It's brutal, I'm not gonna try to pretend
that I'm like tired and stuff.
What you're seein' is what you see.
Hey Jordan, it's Dan and Hunter.
We just finished the ninth hole.
I think we're gonna continue onward, keep playing.
If you happen to have any more Gatorades or Powerades
and you'd like to bring any out,
I would definitely pay you for your time
and for the drinks.
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Whew!
I wanna make sure that you guys see every single shot.
And so I've made the decision,
the first nine holes we are stopping right here.
Will I survive a full 18 holes in over 120 degrees?
You'll have to wait 'til the next video to see it.
It's so hot.
So yeah, I'm not too optimistic myself, honestly.
We might need some help.
Anyway, stay tuned soon.
We'll have the second half of this video.
Thanks for watchin'.
My heart rate is goin' nuts.
We have to stop so much just to chill in the shade
because it's so much cooler.
121 degrees out here.
- [Hunter] don't know about you,
but the heat's gettin' to me.
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- My heart rate 141, 142, 145, 146.
Why am I getting more, is it heat?
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- [Hunter] That was pretty talented Dan,
you're flying a drone while driving the golf cart.