Golf Facts

Golf Facts

Golf Facts

Golf is a game, not surprisingly, filled with fascinating golf facts. There something about golf that makes the facts and figures of the game more interesting than most sports. Football may have more fans, tennis more style, and athletics more tenacity, but golf is by and large a quirky game, and its facts are equally quirky, and therefore much more interesting too.

The difference in height between the highest and the lowest golf courses in the world is an astonishing 14,553 feet. The highest golf course in the world sits at 14,335 feet high. It is the Tactu Golf Club in Morococha, Peru. The lowest golf course in the world is also the hottest. It is Furnace Creek golf course in Death Valley, California at 218 feet below sea level. Furnace Creek golf course holds two golf facts. It also holds the record for the highest temperature in the Western hemisphere at 56.7 degrees Celsius, recorded in 1913, which makes it the hottest golf course in the world.

Getting a hole in one at the Sano Course at the Satsuki Golf Club in Japan would be very hard going. In fact, none have been recorded as the 7th hole of the course, a par 7, is an amazing 2,727 feet long. The longest drive ever recorded anywhere is only 1,545 feet - 1,182 feet short of getting a hole in one on this hole. It was Mike Austin who made the longest drive recorded at the US National Seniors Open Championship in Las Vegas in 1974. He was 64 years old at the time.

Putting is usually something reserved for the final shot or shots of a hole, and usually involves just a few feet in length. In fact, putts of over 25 feet or so are generally considered to be on the long side. Shots of 375 feet long, for example, would be something generally associated with a moderate drive, but in fact, the longest ever recorded putt was that length. It was Fergus Muir who made the 375 foot putt on the 5th hole at St Andrews Eden course, a par 3 hole, to be included as one of the heroes of golf facts.

There are a lot of "feathered" shots in golf, and they all started with the birdie. It was Ab Smith playing in 1899 who started off one of the strangest of the many golf facts. Smith played a shot one day that came out at one stroke below par and described it, curiously, as "a bird of a shot." The name stuck and over time a shot of one stroke below par became known as a birdie. Other "feathered" shots, including eagle, albatross, ostrich, turkey, and arguable, duck-hook, followed from that humble beginning.

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