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Did You Know That Our Founding Fathers Golfed?

NiceBallz took a patriotic slant this holiday weekend with a look at some completely fabricated well-researched facts about the connections that our Founding Fathers had to golf.

Here are some facts that you might learn from the article:

  • Did you know that George Washington was The Hammer before Jack Hamm was?
  • How about that Ben Franklin coined one of golf's most famous phrases?
  • Maybe that the ever-competitive John Adams had a temper that would make Happy Gilmore blush?

Head on over to NiceBallz and check out the post.  Make sure you have My Country Tis of Thee playing and a flag in your hand.

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That’s REALLY funny !

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Jul 6, 2009 3:41 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Heh.

It’s a little known fact (in my best Cliff Claven Boston brogue) that while playing a $5 Nassau, Alexander Hamilton claimed to have witnessed Aaron Burr surreptitiously use his foot to nudge his ball into the first cut from a terribly lie in the rough.

The rest, as they say, is history.

"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose." - Winston Churchill

by turnover on Jul 6, 2009 3:52 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

BWAHAHAHAHA. Any time I hear Aaron Burr, I think of that milk commercial.

Email me any comments or questions at ryan@thegolfnewsnet.com.

by Ryan Ballengee on Jul 6, 2009 4:06 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Man, I'd forgetton about that ad!

Brilliant, indeed.

"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose." - Winston Churchill

by turnover on Jul 6, 2009 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I didn’t remember that one – classic !

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Jul 6, 2009 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

what milk commercial ?

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Jul 6, 2009 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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