A golf game can really be the start of something big. In 1955, comedian Dick Shawn was playing at the Englewood (New Jersey) Country Club. One of his shots sliced off the course and bounced into a man’s backyard. When Shawn went to see where the ball had landed, the owner of the house began to bawl him out.
But soon the shouting stopped, and the men began to talk on friendly terms. Shawn liked the house so well that he bought it for $50,000.
From The Giant Book of Strange But True Sports Stories by Howard Liss. Illustrations by Joe Mathieu.
America: Buy a house on a golf course, and then complain about those who use the golf course…