Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Golf Scorecard History 101, Minnesota - Set #

Golf Scorecard History 101, Minnesota
Set #7
Balmoral GC to Brentwood GC 


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Minnesota Tidbits:
  1. Minnesotan baseball commentator Halsey Hal was the first to say 'Holy Cow' during a baseball broadcast.
  2. The Mall of America in Bloomington is the size of 78 football fields --- 9.5 million square feet.
  3. Minnesota Inventions: Masking and Scotch tape, Wheaties cereal, Bisquick, HMOs, the bundt pan, Aveda beauty products, and Green Giant vegetables
  4. The St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959 allowing oceangoing ships to reach Duluth.
  5. Minneapolis is home to the oldest continuously running theater (Old Log Theater) and the largest dinner theater (Chanhassan Dinner Theater) in the country.
  6. The original name of the settlement that became St. Paul was Pig's Eye. Named for the French-Canadian whiskey trader, Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant, who had led squatters to the settlement.
  7. The world's largest pelican stands at the base of the Mill Pond dam on the Pelican River, right in downtown Pelican Rapids. The 15 1/2 feet tall concrete statue was built in 1957.
  8. The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is the largest urban sculpture garden in the country.
  9. The Guthrie Theater is the largest regional playhouse in the country. 
  10. If GolfLink.com is correct there are nearly 600 courses in Minnesota.




























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Conway Farms GC, Illinois
Additions to Previously Blogged Scorecard Sequences
Ecuador, French Guiana, Gambia, Guinea, and Guyana Scorecards
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