| The other day I golfed on a course with a
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| | world at the equator, about 25,000 miles.
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| spectacular 18th hole. A narrow fairway,
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| | The weight of all these balls is about
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| cut into a river bank, with a steep down
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| | 80,000 tons, about the size of an
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| slope on the river side of the fairway,
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| | aircraft carrier or similar large
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| and the dense brush of the natural
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| | ship.Anyone who is familiar with math, or
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| riverbank on the up slope side provided a
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| | anyone who has read the “DaVinci
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| very challenging par 4. I was playing the
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| | Code”, will notice that the numbers
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| white tees and on this hole, the white
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| | that measure a golf ball, 1.62 for both
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| tee box is on a small plateau, at least
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| | mass and size, are suspiciously close to
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| 75 yards or so from the blue tee.Play was
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| | 1.618, the number referred to in math as
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| slow, so while waiting to drive, I took a
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| | PHI, the “divine proportion”
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| quick look in the brush beside the tee
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| | or the “golden section”.
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| box. Just as I suspected, there were
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| | This number is found frequently in nature
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| quite a few balls in there, and I pulled
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| | as a ratio and has been used in
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| out about a dozen good ones in a few
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| | architecture and art since the pyramids
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| minutes. Spots like this often have some
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| | and the Parthenon. There is an
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| lost balls because the guys (probably
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| | explanation of the number in the DaVinci
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| guys) who duff their shots from the blue
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| | Code because Leonardo DaVinci used the
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| tee are probably a bit embarrassed about
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| | ratio in his art and his inventions. This
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| looking for their ball in the proximity
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| | led me to speculate on whether or not the
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| of the white and red tees.Unfortunately,
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| | numbers were used intentionally by the
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| I paid dearly for my find with an itchy
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| | inventor of the golf ball.I was not able
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| skin irritation from some sort of noxious
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| | to find the answer, but the inventor of
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| weed that must have been in that patch of
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| | the precursor to the modern ball, a
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| rough. I had trouble getting to sleep
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| | rubber ball, was Rev. Dr. Robert Adams,
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| that night – hard to scratch and
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| | who may have also gone by the name of
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| sleep at the same time – so I had a
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| | Robert Adam Paterson, who golfed at
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| bit of time to ruminate on the
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| | Carnoustie, Scotland, a course that has
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| irresistible obsession many golfers have
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| | hosted the British Open. An educated Scot
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| with looking for lost balls. I have a
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| | like Adams could very likely have been a
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| five- gallon pail full of used balls in
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| | Mason and well aware of the phenomenon of
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| my garage, so why was I so pleased to
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| | PHI.I then wondered if the choice was
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| find a dozen more?My middle of the night
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| | made because the width of the ball has
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| contemplation led to some speculation
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| | something to do with the length of the
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| about how many lost balls there are in
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| | course. If you take 1.62 inches and
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| the world at any given time. So the next
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| | multiply it by a nice round number like
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| day I got on the Internet and found that
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| | 100,000, you get 162,000 inches. Convert
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| I was not the only one asking this
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| | the inches resulting from that equation
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| question. In fact, in 2001, a golf
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| | to yards, the result is 7290 yards, about
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| magazine actually did some more or less
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| | the length of many courses, depending on
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| scientific research on the subject and
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| | which tee you hit from. Was course length
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| came up with the estimate of about 2.56
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| | determined by the width of the ball or
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| billion golf balls that are lost each
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| | was the width of the ball determined by
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| year around the world.To put this number
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| | course length?Fortunately, my rash lasted
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| in perspective, I found out that the
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| | only a day or so, but the itch to learn
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| regulation golf ball weighs 1.62 ounces
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| | more about the relationship of the divine
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| and is 1.68 inches in diameter in the
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| | proportion to golf has not gone away.
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| U.S. and 1.62 inches in Britain. If put
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| | Could there be a relationship to why golf
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| end to end, the lost golf balls in the
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| | is the perfect game but so hard to
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| world would equal the distance around the
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| | perfect?
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