A Good Walk Spoiled

Mark Twain's definition of golf.

And with that in mind, here is some golf trivia from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Extraordinary Book of Facts and Bizarre Information.

-Japan has more than 13 million golfers but only 1,200 golf courses.

-Fewer people golf on Tuesday than any other day of the week.

-Eight per cent of all money spent on sporting goods in the United States is spent on golf equipment.

-Before 1850, most golf balls were stuffed with feathers.

-Golf was banned in England in 1457 because it was a distraction from archery.

-Tiger Woods's caddy made $1 million in the year 2000.

-"Golf" probably comes from the Dutch, "kolf". which means "club".

-Golf club Alan Shepard used on the moon:  a six-iron.

-The world's first golf rule book was published in Scotland in 1764.

-The first course with 18 holes was St. Andrew's, in Scotland, in 1764.

-When it was introduced in 1848, the modern golf ball was called a "gutta-percha" ball.

-More people die playing golf than any other sport.  Leading cause of death:  heart attacks and strokes. (I don't have the statistics, but I'd venture a guess that it is because more people play golf than any other sport...particularly, more people in the age bracket that has heart attacks and strokes.)

Comments

[Cheryl]

How weird! I was at Borders today looking around and ended up in the humor section where I picked up Uncle John's Supremely Satisfying Bathroom Reader. I had never heard of these and thought it might be fun for my husband and I. And now you're writing about one!