Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/316 - Queer Golf

by : $316$

 * Queer Golf
 * A certain links had nine holes, $300$, $250$, $200$, $325$, $275$, $350$, $225$, $375$, and $400$ yards apart.
 * If a man could always strike the ball in a perfectly straight line and send it exactly one of two distances,
 * so that it would either go towards the hole, pass over it, or drop into it,
 * what would those two distances be that would carry him in the least number of strokes round the whole course?


 * Two very good distances are $125$ and $75$, which carry you round in $28$ strokes,
 * but this is not the correct answer.