10 Facts About Today - PodcastApril 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:

1.  Golf balls were originally made of feathers
   1. They were made with chicken or goose feathers
   2. Wrapped in leather
   3. They would cost between $10-20
2. Golfers used to tee-off on piles of sand
   1. Before tees were invented it was common practice to make a little mound of sand to tee off on
   2. They would make them by hand
   3. This started to switch over when the tee began getting popular in the 1920’s 
3. Woodrow Wilson loved golf
   1. He would play rain or shine
   2. He would even play in the snow
   3. He had black golf balls for when it was snowing
4.  In the golfing movie Happy Gilmore Bob Barker really gets in a fight on the golf course
   1. There is an amazing scene where Happy and bob barker are golfing together and they start to argue
   2. They eventually start to fight and bob barker did all the fighting in that scene
   3. He was his own stunt man
   4. He studied martial arts under chuck norris 
5.  Bill Murray improvised his cinderella story speech in caddyshack
   1. He did it all in 1 uninterrupted take
   2. It lasts about 1:20
6. St Andrews Golf Course was established in 1552.
   1. Old course considered oldest in the world.
7. Tiger Woods got his first while in one at 8 years old. 
8. Longest whole is one in history made on a 517 yard par 5 hole. 
   1. 2002
   2. Mike Crean in Denver, CO
   3. So rare only a few are known in the history of golf. 
9. The most famous left-handed golfer is actually right-handed!
   1. , Phil Mickelson 
   2. mirrored his father
   3. never used right-handed clubs in his entire career.
10. An astronaut  played golf on the moon! 
    1. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr
    2. Apollo 14
    3. Feb 1971
    4. He used a 6 iron