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Before golf tees, players would shape mounds of sand and place the golf ball on top. Tees were finally popularized in the 1920s.

The term “birdie” was coined accidentally by Ab Smith, who hit a “bird of a shot” in 1889.

A score of three under par is called an “albatross.”

A “condor” is a term given to a hole-in-one on a par 5. It is almost as rare as two hole-in-ones in a single game of golf.

Almost 80% of golfers will never have a handicap under 18.

The average golfer has a 12,500 to 1 chance of making a hole-in-one. 

Golf was one of the only sports played on the moon. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. used a 6-iron to play golf on the moon. This is a fact about golf we should all be proud of!

The longest putt was a mind-blowing 375 feet.

The chance of making two hole-in-ones in a single game is 1 in 67 million.

To date, Tiger Woods has won an astounding 82 PGA tournaments.

Tiger Woods made his first hole-in-one at the age of eight.

Phil Mickelson is naturally right-handed, but as a child, he mirrored his father’s swing and learned to swing as though he was left-handed.

Jack Nicklaus was the first golfer who was able to successfully defend his Master’s title.

An average 300 million golf balls are lost every year