Live...Laugh... GOLF!!

 A reporter was interviewing Jack Nicklaus. He said, "Jack, you are spectacular, your name is synonymous with the game of golf. You really know your way around the course. What is your secret?"To which Jack replied, "The holes are numbered!"

It is estimated that golf is played by an estimated 50 to 61 million people worldwide. The origins of this popular sport is however much debated. Claims for being the ‘inventors’ of the game is made from China to  Persia.

The most widely accepted account is that the modern game of golf originated in Scotland around the 12th century. The most persistent legend being that bored shepherd tending flock near St. Andrews amused themselves by hitting rounded stones into rabbit holes, using wooden crooks.

Whatever its true origins, golf today has become more than a game. It is a lifestyle. Golf’s (addictive) popularity is probably due to the fact that it is an all-round sport which can be played by people of all ages, alone or in groups and at different levels – social or competitive.

That a man’s ties to golf could be stronger than his ties to his family is best illustrated by a case in New York in 1922. One Mrs. Hayward was granted a divorce blaming golf as the third party in the break-up of her marriage. According to her, her marriage started going downhill when her husband joined the golf club about a year after their wedding. His attitude went from “coolness to badness”, Mrs. Hayward said, and the last straw was when he returned from a golf trip in Europe and greeted her at the door with a cool “how do you do?” before brushing past her, putting on his golf suit and immediately left for the club with his golf sticks!

The moral of the story for ‘golf widows’ worldwide? If you can’t beat them, join them …

FORE! To the 19th hole!

Some interesting facts about the game of golf:

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Americans spend more than 600 million dollars on golf balls every year.
The Longest Hole in the World is the 7th hole of the Sano Course, at the Satsuki Golf Club, in Japan. Its a huge  909 yards from the tee box to the hole. It is a par 7.
The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.
In Japan they use plastic golf balls.
The putter is the most-used club in golf. 
Initially golf balls were made out of wood. After that they were made out of leather which was stuffed with feathers.
There are three golf balls on the moon.
Tiger Woods was introduced to golf at nine months of age by his father.
The most holes-in-one in a career is 68 by Harry Lee Bonner from 1967 to 1985.