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The golf ball story continued..... football with leather
covers, and they were still the most unique of all sports equipment. So nope,
that's not it either. To find out what makes a golf ball unique we're going to have to propel ourselves back, back like a wild drive hitting the red tee marker. Back over 600 years when golf balls were rocks being hit by golfing sticks.
Picture yourself walking along the moors and dunes you and your golfing partners whacking away at your rocks with your wooden golfing sticks when the inevitable happens. You take a mighty swing at your golfing rock and your stick breaks.. "Ya lousy bastard, ya broke my golfing stick!" You know that if you keep pounding rocks with your stick, your stick will eventually break but your hooked so you keep whacking away. Prior to 1400 this had to be a concern to most golfers, as surely good golfing sticks had to be hard to come by.Not wanting to keep replacing their sticks, golfers began making golf balls from hard woods. Thus the invention, and use of the woody. "Git in the hole you pathetic wooden bastard". Not a pretty thought is it? A bunch of crazy old Scots running around the links in their kilts , whacking at their woodies with golfing sticks. No wonder King James II banned the game using the excuse that his countrymen were spending to much time playing and not enough working. What do supposed he had to say ? ......Next page |
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