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Golf is a sport of numbers, titles, and sometimes distinctive anecdotes. Do you know these little tales?

Black and white
In 1960, well-known South African golfer Gary Player wore a white and a black sock on the British Open in St Andrews. It was his method of protesting apartheid.

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Tarzan’s cry
Johnny Weismüller, who performed Tarzan twelve occasions, was impressed by an Austrian yodelling for his well-known cry. This cry which saved Tarzan within the cinema, additionally saved Johnny whereas he was taking part in golf in the course of the Castro revolution. Taken hostage by the rebels, he discovered Tarzan’s cry as an escape. Recognized by connoisseurs of American cinema, he was not solely launched however escorted by troopers very proud to have met him.

Black bullets
The American Presidents’ ardour for golf is an everyday subject in your Play Golf. Probably probably the most fanatic of them was Woodrow Wilson, president from 1913 to 1921, as a result of he performed even in winter. And when there was snow, he used black balls.

The first time
Tiger Woods was 19 when he first performed on a hyperlinks. It was in Carnoustie, simply 25 years in the past. The following week he was launched to the Old Course at St Andrews.

Piece of string
Before 1900, the golf bag didn’t but exist. The caddies held the golf equipment along with a rope.

First the par 3
The nice English architect Harry Shapland Col started designing a course with the par 3s, then accomplished his mission with the opposite holes.

Snead on the LPGA Tour
Legendary Sam Snead is the one male golfer to carry an LPGA Tour title. In 1962, the American gained the Royal Poinciana Plaza Invitational, a event performed in Palm Beach (Florida) on a par 3 course.

Zaharias on the PGA Tour
Famous Babe Zaharias, arguably the most effective golfer of all time, is the one girl to go the reduce in a PGA Tour event. It was in 1945 in the course of the Los Angeles Open.

With one hand
Alan Shepard, one of many astronauts on the Apollo 14 mission, stays to today the one human who hit a golf ball on the moon. A shot made with a 6 iron and with one hand, his spacesuit not permitting him to carry out a standard swing.

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Oops, too shut!
Greg Norman is an skilled helicopter pilot. During a flight in Naples (Florida), seeing an enormous alligator from his private helicopter, he determined to take a more in-depth look. Too shut! The animal of 4.50 meters for practically 500 kg felt threatened and jumped up, grabbing one of many skates of the machine in its mouth. Unbalanced, the helicopter swung and the alligator let go.

Contractual
The well-known American actor Samuel L. Jackson is so hooked on golf that he imposes a selected clause in every of his contracts. It is thus stipulated that the 71-yr-previous actor can go away the shoot twice per week to go play golf.

Extract from Play Golf quantity 280.