#26 - Golfers | April 10, 2020
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April 10, 2020 - 10 Facts About Golf
Here are 10 green jacket facts about golf that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:
- Golf balls were originally made of feathers
- They were made with chicken or goose feathers
- Wrapped in leather
- They would cost between $10-20
- Golfers used to tee-off on piles of sand
- Before tees were invented it was common practice to make a little mound of sand to tee off on
- They would make them by hand
- This started to switch over when the tee began getting popular in the 1920’s
- Woodrow Wilson loved golf
- He would play rain or shine
- He would even play in the snow
- He had black golf balls for when it was snowing
- In the golfing movie Happy Gilmore Bob Barker really gets in a fight on the golf course
- There is an amazing scene where Happy and bob barker are golfing together and they start to argue
- They eventually start to fight and bob barker did all the fighting in that scene
- He was his own stunt man
- He studied martial arts under chuck norris
- Bill Murray improvised his cinderella story speech in caddyshack
- He did it all in 1 uninterrupted take
- It lasts about 1:20
- St Andrews Golf Course was established in 1552.
- Old course considered oldest in the world.
- Tiger Woods got his first while in one at 8 years old.
- Longest whole is one in history made on a 517 yard par 5 hole.
- 2002
- Mike Crean in Denver, CO
- So rare only a few are known in the history of golf.
- The most famous left-handed golfer is actually right-handed!
- , Phil Mickelson
- mirrored his father
- never used right-handed clubs in his entire career.
- An astronaut played golf on the moon!
- Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr
- Apollo 14
- Feb 1971
- He used a 6 iron
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