FW: Golf: The First Sport Played On The Moon.

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Golf was the first sport played on the moon.

In 1971, two years after Neil Armstrong became the first person to step onto the surface of the moon, astronaut Alan Shepard took a different leap for mankind. During the Apollo 14 mission, he brought along the head of a 6-iron golf club. He attached it to the handle of a collapsible lunar excavation tool, and used the makeshift golf club to hit two golf balls — making golf the first sport played on the moon. At the time, Shepard claimed his second ball traveled for “miles and miles and miles,” but recently remastered images show that it traveled about 40 yards, and the first ball traveled roughly 24 yards. Astronaut Edgar Mitchell also got in on the sporting fun, using a pole from a solar wind experiment as a javelin. His throw landed near Shepard’s first golf ball.