Did You Know That Our Founding Fathers Golfed?
by Ryan Ballengee on Jul 6, 2009 3:14 PM EDT
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PrintNiceBallz 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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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
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
Man, I'd forgetton about that ad!
"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
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