the sport's more bizarre records.

Rethinking his strategy for getting into the Guinness Book of World Records, Wayne Dill is now counting on more than 100 competitors to join him at Ocean View for Saturday's attempt at completing the fastest round of golf.

"If you feel you can make a contribution, come on out,'' said Dill, organising the attempt as part of the first annual PRIDE Golf Tournament.

The record was set in California, on November 16, 1992 by a group of 35 golfers, who completed two rounds of a nine-hole course in nine minutes, 39 seconds. It was after reading about a failed attempt in Florida to break the record last summer that Dill planned Bermuda's assault.

But in the past two weeks, he's altered his thinking a little bit, shifting from morning to afternoon and from 35 golfers to about 110. Guinness, it turns out, is not concerned about how many golfers or how many strokes; merely how long it takes.

"We've planned on how we're going to attack the course,'' he said. "At this point all we really need are numbers.'' Originally, Dill was planning on about four golfers per hole and between five and ten seconds per shot. On the advice of people such as Belmont's Barry DeCouto, he's now looking at about ten golfers for each of Ocean View's two par fives and four par fours.

This way, he figures, he can surround the tee shot and the approach with strategically-placed golfers and have a couple more on the green, drastically reducing the chances that one bad lie will scuttle the record attempt.

While Ocean View is an unforgiving 3,000-yard track, the record was set on another nine-hole course, the relatively flat John E. Clark course in Point Mico, California.

A practice round scheduled for Ocean View on Monday was cancelled when weather and the hour (7.30 a.m.) curtailed the number of available golfers, hence the switch to 1 p.m. on Saturday, immediately after the PRIDE tournament.

Dill figures he has about 50 confirmed golfers and will ask the 50-odd competitors at the tournament to join in. But "we can always use more,'' he says.

Dill has extended an open invitation for anyone else -- lower handicaps preferred -- to show up at 11.30 a.m. on Saturday for a practice.

Another attempt is planned immediately following the first should it be unsuccessful.

"I'm optimistic,'' said Dill. "At the very least, it's going to be a lot of fun.''