Al Capone Was a Golfer
What is it about the game of golf that can cause otherwise normal folks to lose all perspective?
More than one person has seen their loved one become consumed with the details of the quality of wood used in clubs, the type of cleats on their shoes, the distance between their feet, and the direction of the wind, not to mention statistics, statistics, statistics.
Featuring more than 500 facts about the sport that Paul Harvey describes as "a game in which you shout 'fore, ' shoot six, and write down five." Readers learn that experts believe shepherds invented the game using their staffs to bat around stones and that 12 percent of all lightning fatalities happen on the golf course
Book details
- Author
- Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo
- Imprint
- Conari Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 224
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Totally Riveting Utterly Entertaining Trivia
- Subjects
- Reference › Trivia
- Topics
- sports trivia · golf history · fun facts · golf statistics · celebrity golfers
- ISBN-13
- 9781573247207
About the author
ERIN BARRETT and JACK MINGO are the co-authors of more than 20 books, including the bestselling Just Curious Jeeves, How the Cadillac Got Its Fins, and The Couch Potato Guide to Life.
Barrett and Mingo have written for The New York Times, Salon, Reader’s Digest, and The Washington Post, and have generated more than 30,000 questions for trivia games and game shows, including Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. They also write a nationally syndicated "This Day in History" column.
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