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Article written by: duddy on May 30, 2017



Title: Golf is one of only two sports to have been played on the moon
Written by: duddy on May 30, 2017

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46 years ago, Alan Shepard pulled out a makeshift six-iron he smuggled on board Apollo 14 and hit two golf balls on the lunar surface, becoming the first - and only - person to play golf anywhere other than Earth.

With little atmosphere and much lower gravity, golf balls on the moon travel much farther than on the earth. Alan attributes his shot of nearly 200 yards to this fact alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-FxhCZold0

The other sport played was javelin.