A Family-Owned Texas Golf Course Just Built A Pyramid Out Of 19,000 Golf Balls
At the annual Benbrook Heritage Fest in Benbrook, Texas, a family-owned golf course decided the best way to celebrate their community was to build the world's largest golf ball pyramid, and the result was both a genuine community effort and an officially certified Guinness World Record. Michael Furrh, a local serial record-setter with a long history of golf-related Guinness attempts, teamed up with Debbie Reynolds and Terri Janak, the mother and daughter duo who own and operate Benbrook Lake Golf, a beloved par-3 course that has been in the family since the 1970s, to pull off an attempt that took months of preparation and hours of hands-on construction during the festival itself. Community members were invited to sign golf balls that were then added to the growing pyramid, meaning the final structure contained not just 19,019 golf balls but the signatures of hundreds of Benbrook residents who wanted to be part of something worth remembering. The pyramid required hand-building the base from scratch and hauling all the materials and balls from the course to the festival stage.
The team submitted their evidence to Guinness World Records and waited through the months-long verification process before the record was officially confirmed and published, with Guinness certifying the achievement as the largest golf ball pyramid ever constructed. For Benbrook Lake Golf, the record attempt was never only about the title. Reynolds and Janak, who took over the course from Reynolds' late father Frank and are now raising the fourth generation of golfers on the property, said the whole project was a way of showing what their city is made of and of bringing the community together around something joyful and a little bit ridiculous. Furrh, who has previously held records for the world's longest usable golf club, said the pyramid was one of the most physically demanding record attempts he had been part of, adding that he expected the title to be worth every hour of the work it took to stack nearly 20,000 small white spheres into a single, improbably large pile. Benbrook was delighted to agree.
