Words You Never Heard

Rocco Figaretti recently hit a hole-in-one on a par three at the Oglebay Park Golf Course in Wheeling, West Virginia.  That might not be so remarkable, except that Rocco is only four years old.  The odds of the average golfer hitting a hole-in-one are about 12,000 to 1.  Even Tiger Woods didn’t hit his first hole-in-one until he was 6 years old.  Rocco’s incredible shot is the reason for a little cock-a-hoop or celebration. Rocco swings right-handed with a left-handed grip.  A mollydooker is a slang for a left-hander.  He started practicing his golf swing at 3 years old hitting balls around the yard at home.  The first golf balls were known as gutta-percha balls because they were made from gutta-percha, a substance obtained from a tree native to East Asia.  Gutta-percha was also used by dentists to fill cavities.  Some people say that golf is just an expensive way of playing marbles!