Pga Tour facts
While investigating facts about Pga Tour Leaderboard and Pga Tour Schedule, I found out little known, but curios details like:
In 1999 EA had to recall 100,000 copies of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 99 as an EA employee hid an uncensored copy of South Park's Jesus vs Santa episode on the PlayStation disc
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A man quit his job to test a theory that if you deliberately practice something for 10,000 hours you can become an overachiever in any field. He is now a 4 handicap and 3 off becoming a PGA Tour Professional Golfer, having never played prior to this project.
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In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what pga tournament is on today. Here are 21 of the best facts about Pga Tour Live and Pga Tour Championship I managed to collect.
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour '99 was recalled because the entire South Park pilot was used as dummy data on the disc and players discovered they could watch the episode by simply putting the game disc into a PC.
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Even though golf is the 7th most popular sport in the US, the PGA Tour has donated over $2 billion to charity. By comparison, the NFL has donated about $370 million to charity.
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Dead Space was built on a modified Tiger Woods PGA Tour engine.
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The first woman to make the cut at a PGA Tour event was Babe Zaharias, in 1945.
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The PGA Tour has banned almost every drug except LSD
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The longest drive in PGA history went for 787 yards, 120 yards further than the longest hole on the PGA tour.
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World class golfer Payne Stewart. Stewart won 11 PGA tour events and 3 majors. He died from rapid depressurization of his plane during a trip from Orlando to Dallas. The plane stayed on autopilot despite the dead crew. F16s followed until the plane ran out of fuel and crashed in South Dakota.
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Tiger Woods has won 8 PGA Tour events since his scandal in Nov 2009. Only 126 other players in history have ever bested that over their entire careers, and only 14 currently active golfers.
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In 1999 EA had to recall the game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 99 as an EA employee hid an uncensored copy of South Park's Jesus vs Santa episode on the PlayStation disc
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Oldest American TV Show currently in production is Meet the Press, Oldest Sports TV Show currently in production is PGA Tour on CBS
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Sam Snead, a former professional golfer and the current leader in career PGA Tour victories with 82, is the only man ever to win an LPGA Tour event and did so by edging out Mickey Wright at the Royal Poinciana Plaza Invitational in 1962
Legendary golfer Lee Trevino and his playing partner were knocked out after being struck by lightning in the 1975 Western Open. He would go on to finish his round and win over 40 more tournaments in his career, including 9 PGA tour events and 1 major. - source
The PGA tour had a "whites" only clause and that Charlie Sifford was the first African America to play in the PGA tour as a professional in 1961. RIP Charlie Sifford - source
The video game Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour was recalled because an episode of South Park was hidden in the game's files.
Sam Snead, 82 time winner on the PGA tour, is the only man to win a LPGA event - source
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Only two African Americans have earned their PGA Tour card since Tiger Woods turned pro in 1996
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Clive Palmer, an Australia Billionaire and Politician Who: Tried to Swindle an Australia Football League, Built a Dinosaur Park on a PGA tour golf course, and is now building a ship he calls the "Titanic II"
Male Pro Golfers on the PGA tour aren't allowed to wear shorts.
About Moe Norman, a Canadian Golfer who is considered the greatest ball striker ever, who because of his Idiosyncrasy, shyness and his odd way of playing including hitting with irons off the tee and then using his woods once on the fairway was forced off the PGA tour, never to return.
