Portal:Golf/Did you know/08

...that, although Scotland is home to Musselburgh Links, the oldest golf course on which play has been continuous since its opening, and is generally recognized as the birthplace of golf, the history of variants of golf in China and the Netherlands may predate that in Scotland?
...that Uruguayan professional golfer Fay Crocker became the first non-American to win an LPGA major championship at the 1955 United States Women's Open and the oldest-ever winner of a women's major championship at the 1960 Titleholders Championship?
...that the Vardon grip, named for its progenitor English golfer Harry Vardon, features a player's resting his dominant little finger on his non-dominant index finger?
...that American Champions Tour player Bruce Fleisher holds that tour's record for prize money won in one's rookie season, having earned US$2,515,705 in 1999 en route to claiming the Arnold Palmer Award as the tour's leading money-winner?
...that the flop shot, in which a player uses a lofted club, such as a lob wedge, to launch a ball at a very high angle with much backspin in order to minimize its distance, was popularized on the professional level by American Phil Mickelson (pictured)?

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