SPACE BALLS: WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BE-FORE

Last night (Earth time GMT), Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin teed off for the first game of world record breaking, intergalactic golf

Clearly lonely and bored, the spaceman whacked the ball into orbit around our planet from the International spacestation Mir. It is now expected to travel a billion kilometers around the earth, sending the Russian straight into the record books as the man who hit the longest golf drive ever.

But the 45-year-old Russian's feat won't be officially recoginsed by Guiness officials for some time. Experts estimate it will take three-and-a-half years for the ball to complete its journey before plunging back to Earth.

By my calculations, that means the intergalactic hole-in-one will occur on 22nd of may 2010. Mark it in your calendar now: Wear tin hat.