"I thought I could knock it out on a weekend. Ha!" Holt said.
It took 2½ weeks to drill 104,650 holes, with the project lasting more than eight months total. In total, the wall's 232 rows and 451 columns of tees cost an estimated $15,000.
Subscribe to Penn State Clips via EmailWhen we get around to finishing the basement, we may follow the lead of Jeff Holt of Huntsville, Utah, who turned 104,650 golf tees into a replica photograph from the 2006 BYU vs. Utah game.
After purchasing the license to use the photograph, Holt had a computer programmer pixelate the photo to fit the dimensions of the wall and graph the layout of the photograph. The next step was to drill holes in the wall based on the grid, replacing the holes with golf tees matching the game photo's colors.
"I thought I could knock it out on a weekend. Ha!" Holt said.
It took 2½ weeks to drill 104,650 holes, with the project lasting more than eight months total. In total, the wall's 232 rows and 451 columns of tees cost an estimated $15,000.
Holt and his wife are both Utah graduates; his daughters are BYU graduates. BYU won the game on the last play, 33-31.
The Original Photo
Artist Jenna Layton looks over her workWe're thinking of doing one of these with Terrelle Pryor's fumble at the Horseshoe. We especially liked the part where Tyrell Sales knocked the ball downfield just before Pryor could pounce on it.
[Hats off to Jay Christensen of The Wiz of Odds for alerting us to this story!]
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