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Why 18 Hole of Golf?
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Why do full-length
golf courses have 18 holes, and not 20, or 10 or an even dozen?
How many of you golfers out there really know the answer to this
one?
During a discussion among the club's membership board at St.
Andrews in 1858, one of the members pointed out that it takes
exactly 18 shots to polish off a fifth of Scotch.
By limiting himself to
only one shot of Scotch per hole, the Scot figured a round of golf
was finished when the Scotch ran out. | |
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