Golf Scorecard History 101, Pennsylvania
Set #8
Totteridge to Treesdale G&CC
Flag of Pensylvania
Flag of Pensylvania
A few interesting facts about the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are listed below:
- Pennsylvania is the first state of the fifty United States to list their web site URL on a license plate.
- In 1909 the first baseball stadium was built in Pittsburgh.
- Hershey is considered the Chocolate Capital of the United States.
- In 1913 the first automobile service station opened in Pittsburgh.
- In 1946 Philadelphia became home to the first computer.
- Bob Hoffman of York is hailed the world round as the Father of Weightlifting. Hoffman started York Barbell Corp. in 1932 and preached the gospel of physical fitness throughout his life as an U.S. Olympic coach, businessman and philanthropist.
- The first daily newspaper was published in Philadelphia on Sept. 21, 1784.
- Philadelphia saw the first Zoological garden in July 1874.
- Drake Well Museum in Titusville is on the site where Edwin L. Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859 and launched the modern petroleum industry.
- There are over 800 golf courses in Pennsylvania. Twenty-five golf scorecards from six of their courses are shown below.
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France Scorecards
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