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Article: Eighteen fun facts about golf.
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- U.S. Kids
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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1. Early shepherds may have used their curved staffs to hit stones in a simple game of "golf" as early as 2,000 years ago.
2. A more structured version of golf was invented in Scotland nearly 1,000 years ago.
3. The first golf balls were made of thin leather stuffed with feathers. Tightly-packed feathers made balls that flew the farthest. Feather balls were used until 1848.
4. The youngest golfer to shoot a hole-in-one was Coby Orr, who was five years old at the time. It happened in Littleton, Colorado, in 1975.
5. Some older golfers try to match their age to their golf score. The oldest golfer to "shoot his age" was a 103-year-old Canadian man. ...