golf
- A titanium driver hitting a golf ball can create a sonic boom
- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
- Golf has been played on the moon! (Alan Shepard 1971)
- The longest hole on a golf course is the sixth hole at the Koolan Island Course in Australia. The hole measures 860 yards
- Scotland invented golf but then banned the game in 1647.
- It was rumoured to stand for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. That is in fact wrong. The medieval Dutch word “kolf” or “kolve” meant “club.” It is believed that word passed to the Scots, whose old Scots dialect transformed the word into “golve,” “gowl” or “gouf.”
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