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  • Weird Facts About Golf

  • Strange, Wacky and Hilarious Stories
  • By: Steve Drake
  • Narrated by: Rob Christie
  • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins

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Weird Facts About Golf

By: Steve Drake
Narrated by: Rob Christie
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Summary

These days you can play a round on the ice floes in the Arctic, in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq and on the plains of Africa.

The rich history of the sport has produced a wealth of screwball, outlandish and just plain weird tales:

  • Golf was invented in Scotland over 500 years ago, but the Chinese claim a similar game as far back as 943 AD.
  • In a three-day span on a course in Wales, a mother, father and son each made a hole-in-one; the odds of this feat are at least 10,000,000 to one.
  • The Toonik Tyme Festival in Nunavut features a nine-hole golf tournament on sea ice with fluorescent balls and parka-clad golfers at Temperatures of -50 degrees Celsius.
  • Four-time long-drive champion Jason Zuback once drove a golf ball over 700 yards on an airport runway.
  • Eight of the world’s oldest golf clubs owned by the Royal Troon Golf Club in Scotland are worth at least $5 million.

And more…

©2008 Steve Drake (P)2022 EMV

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