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Golf – it.s more than just a good walk spoiled … as Seve know, sometimes it’s a wander around the car park! The most historic moments in the history of golfing history! Including Silent Ben, Bounding Billy, Rabbit groundsmen, Golfing midgets, Baloon balls, Calamity Jane, Breasts on the course, The gold dust twins …A blissful 72 holes, plus a trivia-filled play-off, chronicling the entire history of the sport from its earliest incarnation, full of featheries, gutties and brassies, to its modern-day, millionaire-infested, sponsor-heavy, worldwide popularity. All those beautiful courses, compelling tournaments, masterful players … but what about the royal ban? The course built on a cemetery? Not to mention the hilarious putting disasters that reduced grown men to tears. This is the story of golf as it has never been told before! From Harry Vardon to Tiger Woods, via Hogan, Nicklaus, Player, Palmer, Faldo and a cast of hundreds. Plus cameos fro, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Howard Hughes and President Eisenhower.