Weird Golf Story of the Week

A priest in Wisconsin has been accused of stealing another priest’s identity and using it to purchase thousands of dollars worth of golf clubs. Read the full story here.

Today is the 35th Anniversary of Alan Shepard’s golf shot on the moon. Shepard hit two with a collapsible club that he had smuggled on board Apollo 14.

Golf For Women Magazine and Golf Digest got out the speculum and the rubber glove and took a close look at the inner female and male golfer.  The results of their survey on gender attitudes toward golf will be published in the March Golf Digest, but you can read it online here.

There were a lot of interesting questions. For example, nearly a quarter of both men and women said there are not situations under which they would prefer to play with a member of the opposite sex.

Only 14% of men prefered to play with their spouse of significant other. Forty percent of women would.

But the question that’s going to make all the headlines was whether golfers would be willing to give up sex for a year for a round at Augusta.

The results: 31% of men, and 32% of women surveyed would.

I’ll bet the rate is much higher for married golfers.  And I’ll bet its nearly 100% among married golfers with kids. (And if you are—or can remember being—married with small kids, you know what I mean.)

A Colorady jury has awarded a man $2 million for injuries he sustained when a pitching wedge came apart while his son was swinging it.

More proof that these things are not toys.

An award given to a man seriously injured by a golf ball during a city sponsored tournament has been upheld by the Iowa Supreme Court. Richard Sunny was hit on the 18th fairway by a ball from the first tee.

Although the city argued that there is an inherent risk to golf, the Court decided that

the city could have taken steps to protect golfers from errant shots, like planting trees or shrubs to shield the fairway on 18 from sliced shots off the first tee.

Now that the lawyers ahve gotten ahold of this, the next thing you know, courses will be requiring helmets and visors.

A trio of golf club thieves in Australia were caught when they tried to pawn a set of clubs in a local proshop. Unfortunately for the thieves, the shop was owned by the father of the golf pro that they had stolen the clubs from.