Get ready for the annual Masters Tournament everyone!!!!! The Masters Tournament is one of the four major championships in professional golf. The Masters is scheduled for the first full week of April, and it is the first of the majors…
Sir James Macdonald 1741 – 1765 and Sir Alexander Macdonald 1744 – 1810
The two boys, James on the right and Alexander on the left, were the sons of Sir Alexander Macdonald of Macdonald, a great Highland chieftain with estates on the Isle of Skye. James is shown with his gun, Alexander is…
Why Isn’t the Hole Larger?
Blame it on Musselburgh. It was at the Links of Musselburgh in central Scotland in 1829 where the first hole cutter was created with a converted piece of drain pipe, which happened to be 4.25 inches in diameter. A handle…
Apollo 14
Technology and the game had both greatly advanced by the time golf enthusiast Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. lifted off to the moon on January 31, 1971, with a golf club stowed away in his gear on Apollo 14. Shepard even…