King High School - Clarion Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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King Lions Take to the Greens Golf is an outdoor sport played by two or more players. This season’s boys' golf team consisted of seven players. Many Historians feel that golf originated in the Netherlands, but it has been well established that the tame actually was devised by the cots and soon became popular in France after the King of Scotland's granddaughter Mary, brought it with her on a trip into the country. In England the game was made popular by the attention given it by James I and Charles I. Kings of England. It is be- lieved that golf was played in America during the colonial period In Eighteen- eighty-eight the St. Andrews Golf Club of Yonkers was established. Some authorities say this is the oldest golf club in the U.S. with a continuous existence. Three principal types of ball have been used in golf. The ball used in the U.S. has a diameter of no less than one and sixty-eighth inches, and weighs not more than one and sixty-two hun- dredths of an ounce. Paul Herrin Richard Bowers measures up the putt King vs Opponent Gaither Plant City Chamberlain Plant Plant City Riverview Brandon Armwood Plant Leto Hillsborough Chamberlain District Boys Golf 83

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82 Boys Golf

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84 Girls Golf