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Weird Facts About Golf - Strange, Wacky and Hilarious Stories (Unabridged) by Steve Drake

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Weird Facts About Golf - Strange, Wacky and Hilarious Stories (Unabridged)

Author
Steve Drake
Narrator
Rob Christie
Publisher
EMV
Publish Date
27 December 2022
Run Time
5 hours 5 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Golf
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These days you can play a round on the ice floes in the Arctic, in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq and on the plains of Africa. The rich history of the sport has produced a wealth of screwball, outlandish and just plain weird tales: Golf was invented in Scotland over 500 years ago, but the Chinese claim a similar game as far back as 943 AD. In a three-day span on a course in Wales, a mother, father and son each made a hole-in-one; the odds of this feat are at least 10,000,000 to one. The Toonik Tyme Festival in Nunavut features a nine-hole golf tournament on sea ice with fluorescent balls and parka-clad golfers at Temperatures of -50 degrees Celsius. Four-time long-drive champion Jason Zuback once drove a golf ball over 700 yards on an airport runway. Eight of the world's oldest golf clubs owned by the Royal Troon Golf Club in Scotland are worth at least $5 million. And more...

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Author
Steve Drake
Narrator
Rob Christie
Duration
5 hours 5 minutes
Release Date
27 December 2022
ISBN
9781990348013
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
EMV
Genre
Golf

Synopsis

These days you can play a round on the ice floes in the Arctic, in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq and on the plains of Africa. The rich history of the sport has produced a wealth of screwball, outlandish and just plain weird tales: Golf was invented in Scotland over 500 years ago, but the Chinese claim a similar game as far back as 943 AD. In a three-day span on a course in Wales, a mother, father and son each made a hole-in-one; the odds of this feat are at least 10,000,000 to one. The Toonik Tyme Festival in Nunavut features a nine-hole golf tournament on sea ice with fluorescent balls and parka-clad golfers at Temperatures of -50 degrees Celsius. Four-time long-drive champion Jason Zuback once drove a golf ball over 700 yards on an airport runway. Eight of the world's oldest golf clubs owned by the Royal Troon Golf Club in Scotland are worth at least $5 million. And more...

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