Golf Clubs � Unusual Facts on the Game and the Players.

Impress your golf partners with some unusual facts on golf clubs, the game and the people who play it.

Fact File

• St Andrews is one of the world's most famous golf clubs and the game has been linked to the area since 1400 AD.

• King James II of Scotland actually banned golf in 1457, he felt all that swinging of golf clubs was distracting young men from archery practice.

• Ever wondered why golf is called golf? The medieval Dutch word �kolf' meant �club' � so perhaps we should really be calling golf clubs, �kolf clubs'.

• The word �kolf' it is thought evolved when the Scottish dialect turned the word into �golve'.

The history of golf is pretty expansive considering its spread over half a millennium.

So there are bound to be some bizarre events. How about the amateur golfer who beat the odds to score two holes in one during a single round? Or the inventor who played with golf clubs recycled from the metal from nuclear missiles? A tournament has been held up by flocks of crows, and one poor unsuspecting fan was caught out by the professionals swinging their golf clubs � he was hit twice by errant balls.

The Bizarre

• Singapore has a rather unusual golf green � the fourth hole in the nine-hole Aranda course has its own traffic light. The fourth hole has a blind drive as a hill obscures the view, so players have to wait for the green light before they swing their golf clubs.

• The longest game on record has to be that played by Floyd Rood who played from September 14 in 1963 to October 3 the following year. That's over a year of swinging his golf clubs! He played from the Pacific to the Atlantic in America and lost 3,511 balls on the 3,397.7 mile journey.

• In the 1989 US Open in New York , four golfers holed the 167 yards 6 th hole in one. They beat the odds of 332,000 to 1.

Crazy Golf

With 26 million golfers in the America alone, there are bound to be more than a few bizarre stories to tell!

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