Facts in "Plants" Category
#2819 - Plants Fact     1  Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers. |
| #2820 - Plants Fact 0 Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls. |
| #2821 - Plants Fact 0 The youngest American female to score an ace was Shirley Kunde in August 1943 at age 13. |
| #2822 - Plants Fact 0 The oldest player to score his age is C. Arthur Thompson (1869-1975) of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, who scored 103 on the Uplands course of 6,215 yd, age 103 in 1973. |
| #2823 - Plants Fact -1 The Tom Thumb golf course was the first miniature golf course in the United States. It was built it 1929 in Chattanooga, Tennessee by John Garnet Carter. |
| #2824 - Plants Fact -2 Two golf clubs claim to be the first established in the United States: the Foxberg Golf Club, Clarion County, PA (1887) and St. Andrews Golf Club of Yonkers, NY (1888). |
| #2825 - Plants Fact 1 The youngest golfer recorded to have shot a hole-in-one is Coby Orr (5 years) of Littleton, CO on the 103 yd fifth at the Riverside Golf Course, San Antonio, TX in 1975. |
| #2826 - Plants Fact -2 The United States Golf Association (USGA) was founded in 1894 as the governing body of golf in the United States. |
| #2827 - Plants Fact -1 Golf-great Billy Casper turned golf pro during the Korean War while serving in the Navy. Casper was assigned to operate and build golf driving ranges for the Navy in the San Diego area. |
| #2828 - Plants Fact 2 Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate. |
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