In Japan it is a common custom to laugh at the mistakes of other players, whereas this conduct is seen as a sign of bad manners in our culture.

Another custom rather unusual among the Japanese is how they celebrate a hole in one. Here it is the cause of great happiness, but for them it implies that the winner must pay for the grand celebration of the hole in one, sometimes as much as £10,000.

Golf can involve many things, without having to travel as far as one couple from New Zealand, who staged a game to decide which of their surnames they should use after their marriage, that of the husband or the wife.

On 23 November 2006, Russian astronaut Mijail Tiurin established a new first in the Guinness Book of Records as the first person to drive a golf ball beyond terrestrial orbit

Golf Benalup

The first known golf ball was made of smooth leather stuffed with goose feathers.

It was discovered that the structure of this ball began to deteriorate over long distances, due probably to wind resistance, and for this reason the conventional pitted surface was adopted. It was discovered that a perfectly smooth sphere creates great pressure in front of it, and a vacuum behind. This turbulence was significantly reduced in pitted golf balls.

Do you know the number of indentations allowed or required in an official golf ball? The answer is 336.