This Day in Golf History: February 6

Can this date in golf lore be anything other than the only golf shot hit away from earth? Today’s “out of this world” moment was when golf went universal. Alan Shepard hit a couple of golf balls with a makeshift 6-iron on the moon on this date in 1971 as part of the Apollo 14 space mission. Shepard quietly snuck the club onboard the flight. Because of his cumbersome spacesuit, he had to swing with his right arm only. Back on earth, Shepard said he “shanked the first one; it rolled into a crater about 40 yards away. The second one, I kept my head down. I hit it flush and it went at least 200 yards.”