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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•  Blogged http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKpzCCuHDVY&feature=artist

Blog Statistics:
993 Blog Postings
The total number of golf scorecard images on this site now equals 17,995
The total number of golf photographs on this site now equals 4,951
The total number of all photographs on this site now equals 14,776

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

My golf scorecard collection statistics as of today:
Total Minnesota = 1,950
Total USA = 94,066
Total Foreign = 45,090
Total Collection = 139,1456

Come back soon and often.

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Scorecard Trading:  If you are a casual visitor and a golf scorecard collector and would like to do some scorecard trading contact me at rbglasson@cox.net.

Available: For sale and/or trade - Over 69,000 duplicate golf scorecards.  Contact me if you are interested.

Golf Scorecard History 101, Belgium - Set #4

Golf Scorecard History 101, Belgium

Set #4

Rinkven G&CC to Royal Latem GC

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Some miscellaneous facts about Belgium:

1. The Big Bang theory originated in Belgium – it was a Belgian, the priest and physicist (apparently not a contradiction in terms) Georges Lemaitre, who first came up with what is now called the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe in 1927. The theory is often attributed to Edwin Hubble, although records show Lemaitre published a similar theory two years before Hubble.
2. Brussels South Charleroi Airport is the most punctual airport in Europe – and it is ranked as the world's second best airport for on-time performance, just behind Japan's Osaka International.
3. Cricket is thought to be a Belgian invention, not British – academics believe immigrants from north Belgium could have imported the game to Britain, based on a poem thought to have been written in 1533 that calls Flemish weavers ‘king of crekettes’ and also mentions ‘wickettes’, predating English references dating to the 1600s.
4. Belgian men are the second tallest in the world – with a height of 181.7cm, only Dutchmen are taller at 182.5cm. The same can't be said for Belgian women, however, who rank 21 at 165.5cm tall.
5. The highest point in Belgium is lower than the world's tallest building – the Signal de Botrange on the High Fens plateau in far-east Belgium is the highest point at 694m, shorter than the world's tallest building in Dubai, the Burj Khalifa at 828m. Belgium along with the Netherlands and Luxembourg are historically known as the Low Countries.
6. Belgium was the world's second country to legalise same-sex marriage – Belgium introduced same-sex marriage in 2003, after the Netherlands. Euthanasia was also legalised in 2002.
7. The Law Courts of Brussels is the world's largest court of justice – with a construction area of some 26,000sqm, it is bigger than St Peter’s Basilica in Rome by 5,000sqm. On the topic of construction, the façade of Brussels' Royal Palace is 50 percent longer than Buckingham Palace.
8. Belgians are accredited to inventing the Body Mass Index (BMI), the saxaphone and plastic – among a number of other world-changing inventions, such as co-designing the World Wide Web, Imodium, inline skates and a safe contraceptive pill.
9. Belgians pay among the highest tax rates in Europe – which amount to some 57.8 percent for the highest earners, which ranked Belgium's tax rates as fourth highest in Europe after France (66.6 percent), Italy and Spain, while OECD ranks Belgium third highest for tax rates out of its 34 members. Belgium's tax revenue is among the highest in Europe representing around 48 percent of the country’s GDP.
10. There are fewer that one-hundred golf courses in Belgium.  Twenty-nine scorecards from ten of their courses are illustrated below.

More Blog Issues for Belgium and Internet Links:

To view more of my Belgium blog issues scroll to the upper left corner of this page and enter the word Belgium in the search field.  This will bring up virtually all of the blog issues for country of Belgium that I've done to date.

Click on this Internet link to view over 11,600 more miscellaneous golf scorecards

 >>>>> https://www.flickr.com/groups/571016@N23/

Also feel free to visit my other websites at    

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbglasson/   
• www.youtube.com/user/rbglasson?feature=mhee 
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbglasson/albums/72157679976598886

My Internet Pick of the Day: 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxTznDRixpw&feature=youtube_gdata_player 

Blog Statistics:
992 Blog Postings
The total number of golf scorecard images on this site now equals 17,970
The total number of golf photographs on this site now equals 4,951
The total number of all photographs on this site now equals 14,776

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

My golf scorecard collection statistics as of today:
Total Belgium = 328
Total USA = 93,057
Total Foreign = 45,090
Total Collection = 139,147

Come back soon and often.

Feel free to leave your comments below.

Scorecard Trading:  If you are a casual visitor and a golf scorecard collector and would like to do some scorecard trading contact me at rbglasson@cox.net.

Available: For sale and/or trade - Over 69,000 duplicate golf scorecards.  Contact me if you are interested.

 Editor's Note:  I corrected some errors in my spreadsheet calculations that slightly understated the size of my scorecard collection in previous blog issues.