Unusual Golf Facts
July 15, 2010 by Admin
photo credit: Chris Breikss Fred McLeod defeated Willie Smith in the playoff for the 1908 U.S. Open Championship, Fred weighed only 108 pounds-the lightest golfer ever to win a U.S. Open title.
Caryl Meeks, of Stamford, Connecticut, buried some of the ashes of Stephen Signore, her longtime companion and an avid golfer, on the 9th fairway of Sterling Farms Golf Club-public course where he played until his death in 1997. No one would have been the wiser, except that the ashes were dug up by the course superintendent's dog.
Tom Jewell is a self-admitted golf junkie-and a very polite one at that. Since 1987, he has, without fail, written letters of congratulation to every winner of every single PGA, Senior PGA and LPGA tournament.
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