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10 Facts About Today - PodcastApril 10, 2020 - 10 Facts About GolfHere are 10 green jacket facts about golf that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know: Golf balls were originally made of feathersThey were made with chicken or goose feathersWrapped in leatherThey would cost between $10-20Golfers used to tee-off on piles of sandBefore tees were invented it was common practice to make a little mound of sand to tee off onThey would make them by handThis started to switch over when the tee began getting popular in the 1920’s Woodrow Wilson loved golfHe would play rain or shineHe would even play in the snowHe had black golf balls for when it was snowing In the golfing movie Happy Gilmore Bob Barker really gets in a fight on the golf courseThere is an amazing scene where Happy and bob barker are golfing together and they start to argueThey eventually start to fight and bob barker did all the fighting in that sceneHe was his own stunt manHe studied martial arts under chuck norris Bill Murray improvised his cinderella story speech in caddyshackHe did it all in 1 uninterrupted takeIt lasts about 1:20St Andrews Golf Course was established in 1552.Old course considered oldest in the world.Tiger Woods got his first while in one at 8 years old. Longest whole is one in history made on a 517 yard par 5 hole. 2002Mike Crean in Denver, COSo rare only a few are known in the history of golf. The most famous left-handed golfer is actually right-handed!, Phil Mickelson mirrored his fathernever used right-handed clubs in his entire career.An astronaut played golf on the moon! Alan Bartlett Shepard JrApollo 14Feb 1971He used a 6 iron