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GOLF TRIVIA...
Long before the invention of tees, golfers played
off of hand-built sand piles. That all changed,
of course, when tees were invented, gaining
popularity during the 1920s.
Tiger Woods holds the record at
-18 for the US Masters
Charging $500 for
an 18-hole round,
Las Vegas’ Shadow
Creek Golf Course
is the United States’
most expensive
public course.
Phil Mickelson, who plays left-handed, is actually right
handed. He learned to play golf by mirroring his father’s golf
swing, and he has used left handed golf clubs ever since.
125,000 golf balls a year are lost in the
water at the famous 17th hole of the
Stadium Course at Sawgrass.
“Caddy” comes from the French
word for student, “cadet”, which
is pronounced cad-DAY.
Bob Cook holds the record for
the longest recorded putt in
tournament golf. During the 1976
International Fourball Pro Am
Tournament, he holed a 140-footand-2 3/4-inch-long putt at St.
Andrews’ 18th hole.
To this day, golf is one of
only two sports, along with
the javelin throw, to have
ever been played on the
moon. Back on February 6,
1971, Apollo 14 member
Alan Shepard hit a ball
with a six-iron, swinging
one-handed as a result of
his pressure suit.
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