Golf Facts I
Americans spend more than $600 million a year on golf balls.
The world's biggest trap is Hell's Half Acre on the 535 m 585 yard seventh hole of the Pine Valley course, Clementon, NJ, built in 1912.
President George W Bush’s first date with future wife Laura was at a miniature golf course.
There are more then 11,000 golf courses in North America.
The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.
Many Japanese golfers carry hole-in-one insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one's good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an ace. The price for what the Japanese term an albatross can often reach $10,000.
Snow golf was invented by Rudyard Kipling when he was, living in Vermont in the 1890's. He painted his golf balls red so that they could be located in the snow.
Alan Shepard used a geology tool as a makeshift driver to become the only person to ever hit a golf ball on the moon. We think he hit it out of bounds since they never found the ball.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Jesper Parnevik once ate volcanic sand to cleanse his body before going on an all-fruit diet.
There are 50 million golfers in the world. Their average gross score is 107 shots. Eighty percent of all golfers will never achieve a handicap of less than 18.