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Don’t Read This If You Think You Know Everything About Golf

What if I were to tell you that you hardly knew anything about the game of golf that you love and play? Would you call me crazy?

Well, that’s not exactly what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that after you read this article, you’ll be able to tell others that, with confidence, because you’re going to know things that very few people know about golf.

In this article, I’m going to give you such great golf trivia, that you’ll sound like an expert to anybody that you talk to.

•    The PGA (Professional Golfer’s Association) was founded as a non-profit organization on April 10, 1916.

•    Todd Hamilton was the oldest golfer to ever win the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year award. In 2004, he was awarded this honor at the age of 39.

•    Arnold Palmer was the first PGA golfer to earn ,000,000 cumulative. He accomplished this feat in 1967 and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.

•    The LPGA equivalent to the Ryder Cup, known as the Solheim Cup, was first played in 1990 at the Lake Nona Golf and Country Club in Orlando, Florida.

•    The PGA began to award Rookie of the Year awards in the year 1990. The first winner was Robert Gamez.

•    The first Masters Golf Tournament was held in the year 1934 and was won by Horton Smith.

•    The oldest major tournament in golf is The Open Championship also known as the British Open.

•    In 1945, Byron Nelson set a PGA Tour record by winning 18 total tournaments in one season. During this season, he also won 11 tournaments in a row. He was also added to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.

•    Vijay Singh shocked the world by replacing Tiger Woods at the top of the Official World Golf Rankings on September 6, 2004. He ended Tiger Woods’ reign at the top of 264 weeks. Vijay was also named 2004 PGA Tour Player of the Year.

•    Jack Nicklaus, regarded by many as one of the greatest golfers of all time was known in his day as “The Golden Bear”. During his career he amazingly accrued 73 PGA Tour victories along with 10 Senior PGA Tour wins.

•    Patty Berg, in 1946, won the inaugural U.S. Women’s Open.

•    Gene Sarazen, in 1930, first thought up and invented the sand wedge that is used to this day.

Now do you believe me? I think that I’ve delivered on my promise. If you can commit these facts to memory, you will definitely have golf knowledge that 90% of people do not. I hope that you have learned something valuable for you and that you can now share this trivia with others.

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