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1 A specialty of landscape design or ________, golf course architecture is its own field of study.

2 In ________, Australia, there is a golf course that consists of nine holes dug into mounds of sand, diesel and oil, with no grass anywhere on the course.

3 In the ________, opposition to golf developments has become a national issue.

4 Resisting golf tourism and golf's expansion has become an objective of some land-reform movements, especially in the Philippines and ________.

5 A golf course consists of a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, fairway, rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick (pin) and cup, all designed for the game of ________.

6 In ________ it is not uncommon for rural courses to have greens fenced off and sheep graze the fairways.

7 At the 125-year-old Royal Colombo Golf Club in ________ steam trains, from the Kelani Valley railway, run through the course at the 6th hole.

8 In ________ and elsewhere in arid regions, golf courses have been constructed on nothing more than oil-covered sand.

9 Course Rating Primer at the website of the ________

šŸ’” Interesting Facts

  • the Baltusrol Golf Club, the golf course that is the site of this week's PGA Championship, is a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for its managing of its lands with concern to the environment?
  • the golf course (pictured) around the buildings of the Garrison Grist Mill Historic District in Garrison, New York helps preserve their historic rural character?
  • the Golf Club Managers' Association represents over 65% of all golf courses in the United Kingdom?
  • the first golf course in North America was a three-hole course built in 1868 in the village of Sainte-PĆ©tronille near Quebec City, Canada?
  • three of the 18 holes at the Powelton Club's golf course (pictured) had to be redesigned a year after they were built when the land they were on was condemned to build U.S. Route 9W?
  • at the Extreme 19th, the world's highest and longest par 3 golf hole, a tee shot takes almost 30 seconds to land?
  • Europe's largest golf course was built on the island of Veliki Brijun in the early 1910s?
  • Fountaingrove Lake (pictured) in Santa Rosa, California, is a habitat for the threatened Western pond turtle, and is surrounded by a championship golf course?
  • Christina Lake, British Columbia is the first golf course in Canada to offer black sand traps?
  • Harold Lloyd's Estate, called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created," included a golf course and a 900-foot canoe stream?
  • Robert Harrison, publisher of the gossip magazine Confidential (cover pictured), was once arrested for allegedly taking pornographic photos at a golf course?
  • Cullen Football Club played on a golf course when they were first formed in 1890?
  • American golfer Tony Lema died when the plane he was travelling in crashed into a golf course?
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