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5VP6Q TIL actor Joe Pesci hated the early unit call times in “Home Alone” since they prevented him from starting his day with nine holes of golf as he liked to do. After Pesci took the Assistant Dir. by the collar one day to complain about it, the call times were moved back from 7 to 9 A.M. just for him.
LQoAV TIL Kim Jong-il's famous five hole-in-one golf record turns out to be a simple journalistic mistake—reporters incorrectly interpreted his scorecard which had been filled out in shorthand by the scorekeeper, and ended up reporting his score wrong.
BgMwy TIL: In golf, if your ball lands near an animal with large teeth or venomous fangs, you're allowed to claim "free relief" and drop a new ball within one club's length of where the original ball landed.