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Fore! Golf season is in full swing! Let’s celebrate with an assortment of facts about this popular sport. • As early as the Roman Empire, sports enthusiasts were playing a primitive form of golf, known as paganica, which used a bent stick to hit a stuffed leather ball. The origins of our more modern game are in Scotland in the 1400s. The game of “gowf” as the Scots called it, was so popular that in 1457, King James II of Scotland banned the sport because men were neglecting archery practice, a necessity for the country’s national defense. In 1502, King James IV rescinded the ban, and actually became a golfer himself.

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• Although the Scots have been playing on the Links at St. Andrews throughout the 1400s, it wasn’t until 1552 that it was officially chartered by the Archbishop, giving the people of St. Andrews the right to play there. Up until 1764, the Old Course at St. Andrews had 22 holes. It was re-routed into 18 holes, which became the standard for the game around the world. • Mary Queen of Scots, who ruled Scotland from 1542 to 1567, was an avid golfer who was strongly rebuked by her subjects for playing golf just a few days after her husband was murdered in 1567, failing to properly mourn his death. Turn the page for more! • Mary Queen of Scots is reportedly the one who brought the word “caddy” to the game. She used French cadets to assist her on the course. “Cadet” is the French word for “student,” pronounced “cad-DAY”, giving us our modern term.

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Strips of the sap were softened in boiling water, then molded by hand, and placed in cold water to harden. In 1901, the Haskell golf ball made its debut, a rubber-cored ball that traveled farther than the gutta percha ball, with the added benefit of a much cheaper cost to produce. The dimples in today’s golf balls decrease aerodynamic drag, allowing the ball to fly farther. A smooth golf ball would travel about half as far as a dimpled one. A golf ball has between 300 and 500 dimples, each about 0.010 inch (0.03 cm) deep. • What is recognized as the world’s first organized golf club was founded in 1744. Established as the Gentlemen Golfers of Leith, the group would later become known as the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, a group that was responsible for drawing up the first set of official rules for the game. • Golf came to the U.S. via two Scotsmen, who first demonstrated the game in 1888, and set up a golf club that same year in Yonkers, New York. The U.S. PGA was formed in 1916, with the first PGA tournament held that year. • The world’s oldest golf tournament is The Open Championship, better known as the British Open. It was first played in 1860 at Scotland’s Prestwick Golf Club, and played there until 1870. The Open is always played in Scotland, England, or Northern Ireland. The

GOLF BITS • Lady golfers got into the scene in 1893 when the Ladies’ Golf Union was formed in the UK, and the inaugural British Ladies’ Amateur Golf Championship was held. The U.S. Ladies’ Professional Golfers’ Association was founded in 1950, although Babe Didrikson was already a famous lady golfer by that time, having been the first American to win the British Women’s Amateur title in 1947. Although Didrikson attempted to qualify for the U.S. Open in 1948, her application was rejected because the event was open to men only. She had already won two Olympic gold medals and one silver in track and field and was an All-American basketball player before turning her attention to golf, where she won 10 major LPGA championships. • The first person to play golf on the moon was astronaut Alan Shepard while a member of the Apollo 14 crew. In February, 1971, Shepard took a six-iron and two golf balls aboard the spacecraft with him, and attempted two drives, the second of which went more than 200 yards (183 m).

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Open is one of the four major championships in men’s pro golf. The other three – The Masters, The U.S. Open, and PGA Championship – are all played in the United States. All four championships together are called the Grand Slam. • Although the Grand Slam has never been accomplished in a single year, five golfers have won all four during their career. At age 32, Gene Sarazen captured his final Grand Slam tournament in 1935, followed by 40-year-old Ben Hogan in 1953. Gary Player was 29 when he wrapped up the Grand Slam in 1965. Jack Nicklaus has won three Grand Slams, the first at age 26 in 1966. Tiger Woods came close to winning the four tournaments in one year, but finished his first Slam over two years at age 24. Tiger has since won two more Slams, and holds the record as the youngest golfer to complete the feat. • Since its inception in 1934, The Masters has been played at Augusta, Georgia’s National Golf Club, and is the only major tournament that is played at the same course every year. During World War II, the course was closed for three years, and used to raise cattle and turkeys in support of the war effort. • Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida’s Sawgrass Stadium Course is the permanent home of the PGA Tour’s The Players Championship. About 125,000 golf balls are hit into the water every year on the courses’s famous 17th “island” hole. • How well do you know golfing terms? Most folks know that each hole is classified by its par, which means

• If golfers want to play on the world’s highest golf course, they will have to travel to Morococha, Peru, where the Tactu Golf Club sits 14,335 feet (4,369 m) above sea level. To play on the world’s northernmost golf course, a trip to Iceland’s Akureyri Golf Club will be required. Those playing stateside will have $500 in green fees for 18 holes at America’s most expensive public course, Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas. Massachusetts is home to the world’s longest golf course, a par-77 course measuring 8,325 yards (7,612 m). • The 1900 Paris Olympic Games included the game of golf, with 22 male and female athletes from 4 countries competing in a 36-hole game. It was an Olympic event at the following Olympics in St. Louis in 1904. The sport was absent from the Games for the next 112 years before being revived in 2016 at the Rio de Janeiro games, when 120 golfers from 41 countries participated. • Tiger Woods may have made his ﬁrst hole-in- one at age six, with another 17 after that, but he’s not the youngest person to shoot one. That honor belongs to Colorado’s

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the number of strokes a golfer should require to complete the hole. The minimum par is three – a stroke from the tee and two putts. One stroke under par is called a birdie, while two strokes under par is an eagle. Three strokes under par can be a double eagle or an albatross. The term condor refers to four strokes under par, an almost-impossible score to achieve. Only four condors have been recorded, all of which were a hole-in-one on a par-5 hole. Golfers who go over par might record a bogey (one stroke over), a double bogey (two strokes over), or a triple bogey (three strokes). • American golfer Ab Smith had an excellent shot back in 1899, and he described it as a “bird of a shot,” giving golfers the term “birdie,” one under par. • When a golfer sinks the ball into the cup on the ﬁrst stroke from the tee, it’s a hole-in- one, also called an ace. The casual golfer’s odds of making a hole in one are about 12,500 to one, but change considerably for a golf pro to 2,500 to 1. Those who hope to make two holes in one during a single round are looking at odds of about 67,000,000 to 1. • Golf shots have various names, depending on how far the ball needs to be moved. The “drive” or “full swing” is the initial shot on a hole when the ball is to be moved a long distance, and typically shot with a long-shafted, large-headed wood club known as a driver. For medium distances, the “approach” or “3/4 swing” is used. Golfers use the “chip” or “half-swing” for relatively short distances near the green. Once the ball reaches the green, the golfer “putts” the ball into the hole.

Coby Orr, who, in 1975, at age five, shot a hole-in-one in Littleton, Colorado. • Legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus had his first PGA Tour winnings, $33.33, at the 1962 L.A. Open. Later that year, he was the winner of the U.S. Open, receiving $17,500. He finished the year with more than $60,000 in prize money. In 1963, at age 22, he became the then-youngest golfer to win the Masters. He won again in 1965 and 1966, becoming the tournament’s first back-to-back winner. In 1986, at age 46, Nicklaus was the oldest player to win The Masters. His final round of pro golf was the 2005 British Open, played at the St. Andrews course. • Slugger Hank Aaron may have had 3,771 hits over the course of his baseball career, but had this to say about golf: “It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.” • America’s first 18-hole golf course was on an Illinois sheep farm, established in 1892. The nation’s first golf club opened there in Downers Grove, Illinois, the following year. The golf course is still there at the original site.

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1. Gladys Knight & the Pips, in 1973. It's been covered by others, including Joe Cocker and Bobby Bland. 2. Songwriter Carole King, in 1962. She'd written the song for Bobby Vee, but released it herself instead -- it was her ﬁrst success. Vee recorded it the following year. 3. Bennie, the leader of the band Bennie and the Jets, the song by Elton John. He didn't want the song to be released as a single -- he considered the song "odd." 4. Smash Mouth, in 1997. 5. "I'll Never Fall in Love Again." The song was written for the musical "Promises, Promises" in 1968. A number of artists covered the song, including Dionne Warwick, Bobby Gentry and Johnny Mathis.

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This recipe for Sweet Corn Soup with Spicy Guacamole is the perfect showcase for fresh corn and summer vegetables. Soup in the summertime? Yes, please!

2. In a large skillet heat 1 tablespoon olive oil over medium heat. Add 2 tablespoons green onions, half the chopped serrano, half the chopped ﬁre-roasted pepper and half of the garlic. Cook and stir for 4 to 5 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Remove from skillet and set aside.

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3. Add 1 1/2 cups of the broth and reserved corn cobs to the skillet. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Using tongs, remove corn cobs and discard; reserve broth in skillet.

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4. Add the 3 1/4 cups corn kernels to broth in the skillet. Bring to boil; reduce heat. Cover and simmer 4 to 5 minutes or until corn is tender. Cool slightly.

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7. For guacamole, in a large skillet, heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil over medium-high heat. Add the 3/4 cup reserved corn kernels. Cook 8 to 10 minutes or until kernels are tender and lightly browned, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and cool slightly. 8. In a medium bowl combine toasted corn, the remaining garlic, green onion and peppers, the tomato, cilantro, lime peel, lime juice, salt and black pepper. Add the avocado. Lightly toss to combine. Ladle soup into bowls. Top with guacamole. *** Angela Shelf Medearis is an award-winning children's author, culinary historian and the author of seven cookbooks. Her new cookbook is "The Kitchen Diva's Diabetic Cookbook." Her website is www.divapro.com. To see how-to videos, recipes and much, much more, Like Angela Shelf Medearis, The Kitchen Diva! on Facebook. Recipes may not be reprinted without permission from Angela Shelf Medearis.

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THE LAW'S COUNTRY CLUB Is it possible that only Ivy League law schools produce attorneys who have what it takes to climb to the top of this country's jurisprudence heap? This heap's pinnacle, of course, is the U.S. Supreme Court. Apparently, we have evolved to a nation where the SCOTUS ivory tower is exclusively the Ivy tower. Even President Donald Trump. the rabble rouser in chief, is said to have factored in Brett Kavanaugh's Yale pedigree when he chose him for another new haven. Assuming the Senate complies, he will cluster with the Supremes: ﬁve Harvard, three other Yalies and one (Ginsburg) who

Even if you set aside Stanford, which many describe as just a West Coast Ivy, with Sandra Day O'Connor and William Rehnquist as alums, what about the University of Michigan or Virginia, not to mention Georgetown? They are among many with sterling programs. Those programs graduate scads of brilliant lawyers. But they're still not regarded as the super-elites. Maybe that's Ivy League self-serving PR. Maybe the critics are correct when they charge that the most important courses at any of them include Hubris, Entitlement and, most important of all, Networking. Look no further than the Supremes. I remember sitting in a green room with a former news type who had escaped the frenetic riffraff world of reporting, and now was enjoying the leisurely, elegant life as an academic at Princeton. What classes he taught obviously had to do with journalism. Making small talk, I insincerely commented that he must enjoy the stim-

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CHERISHED MEMORIES BOUND TOGETHER I know what my project is going to be when it's too hot to go out this summer: I'm going to complete a Bio Binder Cherished Memories book. The purpose of the 100-page Cherished Memories book is to leave for your family a record of all your memories. Better than that, however, is having the opportunity to think back over your own life, what your dreams were, how you got to where you are today, what you hope for your family, and more. To see what the binder looks like, go to Amazon and search for "Cherished Memories." You'll see the option of using a Kindle version or the 3-ring binder. Click on Look Inside and scroll down the sample pages. It starts with an Introduction to show you how to use the book. Section 3 is about birth to age 12, where you write information about your childhood experiences and memories, what you did for fun, and school. By Section 6, it gets into your personal values and the philosophies you want to pass on to others. Section 7 is My Favorites, and it's my own personal favorite section. It gives a place to document favorite animals (maybe the pets you had as a child), books, television shows, foods and more. There's also the option to add newspaper clippings, photos, letters and your family tree. You don't have to start at the beginning -- pick your favorite section and begin there. Another way to approach this would be to create one of the binders with your parent. Just asking the questions themselves will open up lots of great discussions, especially if you include your own children in the project. You can go directly to the seller at biobinders.com/bb_ purchase.htm to read more about the binder.

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For Advertising Information Call 954-667-3237 ulation of interacting with and molding fresh student minds, particularly the brightest of the bright, in an Ivy league school. "Not really," he snapped, "Most of these kids just got into Princeton because they did what they're told." He meant that they grew up excelling at sucking up to all their teachers; not making waves, and getting high grades as a result. Either that or they were admitted because the parents were willing to make a huge contribution to the already heavily endowed institution of higher learning. What can get lost in all this is the common touch and common sense. When it is automatically assumed that brilliance can shine only overhead, we fail to illuminate the worthy experience of those who labor below. Life at the top is insular. What we have created in this nation is a nearly impenetrable caste system. At the Supreme Court, society's rules are ultimately interpreted by justices who were indoctrinated by their education to protect the advantages of the ruling class. Yes, a number of them are progressive, a dwindling number. But their Ivy League advantage is really the disadvantage of intellectual inbreeding. Bob Franken is an Emmy Award-winning reporter who covered Washington for more than 20 years with CNN. (c) 2018 Bob Franken Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

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This obviously is a rare event, and caffeine is generally safe at reasonable doses, but "at least" ﬁve a day is way too much caffeine. Depending on the brand, ﬁve cans would contain perhaps 800 mg of caffeine (about a half-gallon of brewed coffee), and 270 grams of sugar (over a third of your entire day's recommended calories and over a week's worth of sugar). I can't comment on "addiction," but I certainly would strongly recommend that your daughter reduce her consumption. *** Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2018 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

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CHINESE PORCELAIN Chinese porcelains are among the hardest for an average collector to identify and date. They have been made for centuries, and it is considered a tribute -- not an attempt to fool a customer -- to copy a piece perfectly, including the original mark. Unfortunately, today there also are some who deliberately make and sell excellent copies of antiques. The pictured vase is named "Five Boys." It is a piece of "famille rose" porcelain and has a six-character mark on the bottom. The boys are climbing or standing on the vase. One has a ruyi scepter; the others are helping each other to the top. The famille rose decoration could be several hundred years old or new. The color and clever three-dimensional ﬁgures helped the vase sell for $1,476, its decorative value. If it were 300 years old, it would sell for much more.

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