Interesting golf facts?

Question

Just facts about the game, not so much of the players records and such. I just need like little known facts about golf for the golf section in the yearbook for my high school. I'd like to have websites. Thanks!

Answer 1

Be careful quoting a 9th grader's website as factual.  Will Patterson sounds like a nice guy, but I never heard of a wooden golf ball, or that golf originated in Japan?  Wedges are only used from 100 yards in, and sand wedge only used from a sand pit?  All rubbish.  Why don't you just report on your schools players on the team, their strengths and what they are working on for next year etc.  That is the stuff people want to read when they go back and visit their old yearbook 20 years later.

Answer 2

golf has been in the olympics . first time 1908 canadian ross soomerville won . next olympics he was only competitor declined gold . was awarded gold would not accept . it is big deal that golf will return to the olympics . people are assuming first time wrong ,.

Answer 3

Golf originated in Europe, not Japan or wherever...

Answer 4

Here you go:

Good info, but hard to read the yellow:  

http://sd67.bc.ca/schools/penhigh/studen...

Answer 5

Fact :

When you are in the bunker, imagine there`s a tee buried in the sand. Try to hit that imaganary tee out of the bunker. See how far that goes!!

Answer 6

History Of The Golf Ball

It is widely accepted that the first golf “balls” were stones, probably rounded pebbles large enough to be used for the purpose. The stones were struck by wooden sticks along open ground close to the sea.

As more people began to play the game, the demand for consistency may have led to the creation of the first true golf ball. These were leather casings stuffed with feathers from one of the numerous fowl seen in rural Scotland. Someone gathered enough goose or chicken feathers to tightly fill a pouch made from pieces of leather stitched together. One historian notes that the amount of feathers needed would fill a gentleman’s top hat. These feathers were often boiled and softened before the stuffing began.

Gutta Percha or “Guttie”

It took nearly 400 years for the first major change in the golf ball. The gutta-percha ball became the standard but only in the mid-1800s. Gutta-percha is the evaporated milky juice or latex produced from a tree most commonly found in Malaysia. Rev. Dr. Robert Adams Paterson is credited with making the first such ball from packing material. “Guttie” balls were usually made by rolling the softened material on a board.

Players soon found that the new material improved the distance they could get from a shot. In addition, the gutta-percha ball lasted longer. But its smooth surface made the ball hard to control. As the used ball became nicked and cut it actually was found to travel straighter and stay in the air longer. Thus was born the molded or ridged gutta-percha ball that had a rougher surface of raised squares or a similar pattern.

Some controversy existed when the “guttie” ball was introduced, though one of the game’s legends, Old Tom Morris was a leading proponent of the change. The new material made the golf ball relatively inexpensive and the number of golfers grew tremendously from about 1850 on. Many leading golfers of the day had their own marks or brands of the gutta-percha ball, and some makers eventually changed the surface design. This next step involved putting raised, round spots on the surface in a consistent pattern. Called the “bramble,” this resembled the outer surface of a berry.

The bramble design was carried over to the next major development in golf balls, rubber. Credited to an American golfer and the B.F. Goodrich Company, the rubber core ball, surrounded by tightly wound thread (1898) is considered one of the true revolutions in golf ball design and manufacture. As the world’s golfers entered the new century, the golf ball had improved. But lack of standards among golf organizations made for a lot of differences in size and weight of golf balls.

An excerpt from the ebook "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Golf"