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Suprising golf facts
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TOP 10 Surprising Golf Facts. 1
GOLF MAKES YOU LIVE LONGER Does your wife get annoyed when you spend half your Sunday out on the golf course? She shouldn’t. According to a study of 600,000 Swedish people from the Karolinska Institute, people who golf live an average of five years longer than non-golfers of the same age, sex, and economic status. And the better a player you are, the longer you’re likely to live. Sounds like a great excuse to head out to the club—and maybe invite your wife along, for a change.
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CELEBRITY GOLFERS Star of “Pulp Fiction” and “51st State” Samuel L Jackson, insists that his movie contracts include a clause that allows him to play golf twice per week when working, no matter where the filming location is. This was commented upon by Quentin Tarantino during the production of his latest film “Django Unchained”.
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HOLE IN ONE The first ever recorded holein-one was made in 1868 by Tom Morris at the Open Championship in Prestwick, Scotland.
3 DOUBLE HOLE IN ONE The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million! John Hudson, a 25 year old professional, achieved a near miracle when he holed two consecutive holes-in-one at the 11th and 12th holes (195 yards and 311 yards respectively) in the 1971 Martini Tournament at Norwich, 4
GEAR There were no golf bags until the 1890s before then caddies simply tied a strap around the clubs. www.prestigegolfonline.co.uk
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SCOTTISH BAN Golf was banned in Scotland from 1457 to 1502 to ensure citizens wouldn’t waste time when preparing for an English invasion. The first mention of “golf” was in a 1457 act making it illegal. James II of Scotland banned golf and football and suggested people spend their time practicing archery instead, as this might be of some defensive help to the country. The ban was reinforced by James III in 1471, and again by James IV in 1491. This royal dislike for the game obviously faded, as the first recorded female golfer was Mary Queen of Scots.
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THE MASTERS “The Masters” was coined by Clifford Roberts in 1938 (used starting in 1939), though Bobby Jones was never a fan -referencing to the tournament as late as 1963 as “the socalled Masters.”
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TEES Before the use of tees became common place, golfers would play off hand built sand piles. Some interesting facts about one of the oldest ball games in history.
RULES The oldest known rules of golf were written in 1744 by an Edinburgh Golf Club – in the original rules you had to tee off within a club’s length of the hole. The Richmond Golf Club drafted additional rules during the Second World War, so players would know what to do if bombs were dropped midgame. These duties included collecting any shrapnel (as it could damage the lawnmowers) and being allowed to take cover during gunfire or bombings and replace a ball displaced by enemy action without penalty.
10 BALLS Early golf balls used to be filled with feathers. These would be stuffed into a leather case with an iron rod and a ball-maker could produce 50 to 60 in a week.
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