Strange Penalties and Rules

It was one small shot for man, one giant divot for mankind in 1970 when U.S. astronaut Alan Shepard used his six-iron to launch a few golf shots on the heavily cratered surface of the moon. In no time, members of one rules committee had cabled the man on the moon to advise Shepard of his responsibilities on the lunar surface. "Please refer to rules on golf etiquette, paragraph 6," read the cable. " Before leaving a bunker, a player should carefully fill up all the holes made by him therein." The astronaut laughed it off as an act of lunar-cy.