The Breeze Magazine of the Lowcountry, JULY 2018

Golf Trivia
The Dye Course will be the second-longest in U.S. Junior Amateur history
Actuaries have calculated the chance of an average golfer making a hole in
one at approximately 12,500 to 1, the odds of a tour professional at 2,500 to 1.
The chance of two holes in one in a single round are approx 67 million to 1.
The longest golf course in the world is the International Golf Club in
Massachusetts. It is a par 77 course measuring 8325 yards.
The Lowest Score for a round of golf in the world is a 57. Wayne Meyers
was the hero at Southern Oaks in Powdersville, South Carolina, in 1994.
In 2006, Russian astronaut Mijail Tiurin was the first person to drive a
golf ball in space.
In 1457 King James II banned golf in Scotland because they distracted
military personnel from pursuing archery, more suited to their profession.
The Gentlemen Golfers of Leith (1744) is considered to be the first official
golf club.
St Andrew’s has had the greatest effect on the origin of golf. It’s course
was initially built with 22 holes but these were later reduced to 18. New
courses followed suit and it became the standard.
At St Andrews the hole was set at 4.5 inches, was copied by other golf courses.
Tom Morris, a successful Scottish professional golfer, was a pioneer in
course design in the 19th Century, is credited with inventing the first dogleg.
Golf is often considered related to the Belgian game Chole and the Dutch
game Kolven. Both are stick and ball games but you do not have to get the
ball into a hole in either the real golf challenge.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
By 1900 there were more than 1000 golf clubs in the US.
Golf clubheads were made of beech or the wood of fruit trees such as apples.