Why do American golfers have funny names like Hank von Klinkerberger III Jnr?
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Yeah...Names like Tiger Woods, Fred Couples, Phil Mickelson, etc. really crack me up.
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dean jacobs, clubhouse, knorr, sassafrass \nOr are you looking to brainstorm ideas for new names\nI'd go with a family name. Its cheaper and it sounds like its been around forever you just haven't heard of it yet. Therefore classier.
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Who cares? (And I don't mean left handed golfers)
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Those two have a fascination with the long ball. That's just how they developed their game. Hey, it works for John Daly.\n\nAnother swing that you may want to investigate that has some of the same characteristics as JD is that of Bobby Jones. Jones' club dropped well below horizontal at the "top" of his backswing. Hogan started out with a swing like that but he shortened his backswing later in his career which allowed him to control his shots better without losing yardage.\n\nIn my game I have found that a somewhat shorter backswing allows me to maintain control without sacrificing distance. I've never been long by any standard but I can keep up.
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"Fore" is another word for "ahead" (think of a ship's fore and aft). Yelling "fore" is simply a shorter way to yell "watch out ahead" (or "watch out before"). It allows golfers to be forewarned, in other words. \n\nThe British Golf Museum cites an 1881 reference to "fore" in a golf book, establishing that the term was already in use at that early date (the USGA suggests the term may have been in use as early as the 1700s). The museum also surmises that the term evolved from "forecaddie."\n\nA forecaddie is a person who accompanies a group around the golf course, often going forward to be in a position to pinpoint the locations of the groups' shots. If a member of the group hit an errant shot, the thinking goes, they may have alerted the forecaddie by yelling out the term. \n\nIt was eventually shorted to just "fore."\nA popular theory is that the term has a military origin. In warfare of the 17th and 18th century (a time period when golf was really taking hold in Britain), infantry advanced in formation while artillery batteries fired from behind, over their heads. An artilleryman about to fire would yell "beware before," alerting nearby infantrymen to drop to the ground to avoid the shells screaming overhead.\n\nSo when golfers misfired and send their missiles - golf balls - screaming off target, "beware before" became shortened to "fore."\n\nThis is another term, however, whose exact origin can't be stated. It does originate, however, in the fact that "fore" means "ahead" and, used by a golfer, is a warning to those ahead.
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this is so funny~my brother is really good at golf and i go with him to try to play,i wear blue plaid pants and a blu polo shirt with a blue hat.it sounds really bad but-it is cute!! i feel like i am playing dress up!
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Jessee Jackson came up with the term.  To me it's a dumb term I'd rather be called by my first name or American.
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Unfortunately things like "Bubba" and "junior" stick.\n\nOther things like "Snooky" and "Boo-Boo" eventually fade, particularly when those people become professionals. Though some use those silly nicknames, to endear themselves to customers, particularly in sales.\n\nNow if you are thinking of artist aliases, they keep their actual names and they picked out what they'd be known as... so when they are in their 50's they'll be haunted by their own choices.
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According to the USGA museum:\n\nIn American slang of the 19th Century, the term "bird" was applied to anything particularly great. "Bird" was the "cool" of the 1800s in the U.S.\n\nSo on the golf course, a great shot - one that led to an under-par score - came to be known as a "bird," which was then transformed into "birdie." The term birdie was in worldwide use by the 1910s, and it's believed it debuted in the U.S. in 1899.\n\nAn "eagle" simply followed "birdie," being added to the lexicon in keeping with the avian image of birdie. And "albatross" later came along for the same reason.
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Golf courses offer grown men a chance to act like kids.  Golf is the adult version of that old grade school favorite, dodgeball.  I don't mean they are hitting balls at each other, but they are deciding who is "in" and who is "out".  If you aren't rich you are automatically "out".  A golf course is the "frat house" for grownups.  It is a place to tell tall tales and get each other with juvenile pranks and hijinks.  It is a place where bragging is excused, but humility never tolerated.  Most of all it is a place where it is socially acceptable to get plastered in the middle of the day.  An executive wouldn't be caught dead in a bar before 4:00 pm, but if he's hitting a little round white ball around, that's considered career advancement so bring on the refreshment cart, and if it doesn't get here fast enough, I've got a flask in my bag.  All in all I would say a golf courses' main benefit is it allows old men to be kids again as they drive their toy cars and carry big sticks.
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Tiger's former caddie was Mike (Fluff) Cowen.  He used to Caddy for Peter Jacobson, and now Caddies for Jim Furyk.
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Golf is a game you can never be good enough at.  There's always a better way to drive, putt, chip, etc.  It's a very challenging sport that anyone with enough body parts can play but very few really get good at it.  It's also addictive.  I live in a Florida community where everyone has a golf cart garage and these old people hit the courses as soon as it gets light out every day and they're dead serious about it, then the rest of the day they talk about golf and watch the Golf channel and look for better clubs to buy.  It's really kind of funny.
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I'm assuming you mean Nicklaus. It was called the Response and was made by MacGregor.
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Very similar to David Ortiz "Big Papi"\n\nBoth players had a hard time remembering peoples names, Willie used to just say "Say Hey" and David would call people "papi"\n\nTeammates started calling them "Say Hey Kid" and "Big Papi" as a joke, so they couldn't use the names on others.  The nicknames stuck.
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tiger woods had stammering problem.i guess good people with something wrong are better than weirdos with 'nothing' wrong
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Asked and answered many times my man....see here:\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AlyceLVF1Z0Z0kyra7w9MWLzy6IX?p=golf+fore
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Looks like he was a movie producer.  He helped make the movie Murder Run.  \n\nProbably a producer who loved to golf.  So he used his money to build a golf course and named it after himself.