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a four-hour walk ruined by a tiny ball and your own bad decisions
means A game in which players use clubs to hit a small ball into a series of holes across a course, aiming to do so in as few strokes as possible.
from From Scotland, where the game took its modern shape, recorded in late medieval Scots as 'golf' or 'gowf'. It's likely related to the Middle Dutch 'colf' or 'colve', meaning a club or bat used in stick-and-ball games of the Low Countries. The much-loved claim that it's an acronym for 'Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden' is pure folklore invented long after the fact — acronyms simply weren't how words were made back then.
- on the moon
- Alan Shepard hit a golf ball there in 1971
- name origin
- likely from Dutch kolf, meaning club or bat
- dimple count
- a ball has 300 to 500 aerodynamic dimples
- oldest course
- St Andrews has hosted golf since the 1400s
- odds of ace
- average golfer's hole-in-one chance is 12,500 to 1
the masters — annual tournament at augusta national golf club since 1934, won by tiger woods 5 times
us open golf championship — oldest golf tournament in the us, established 1895, won by rory mcilroy and tiger woods 3 times each
the open championship — oldest major golf tournament in the world, established 1860 at prestwick scotland
pga championship — fourth major established 1916, won by tiger woods 5 times