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How Could Golf Change in a Low-Gravity Environment?

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Low gravity golf was invented by Alan Shepard in 1971 when he hit two golf balls 40 yards on the moon.

Surprisingly, this version of the sport with little atmosphere and much lower gravity, is the most common that will be played on the planets in the solar system that are already top candidates for human settlement.

  • 0.4 g : Mars
  • 0.2 g : The Moon, Triton
  • 0.1 g : Callisto, Ganymede, Eris, Makemake, Pluto
  • 0.02 g : Haumea, Ceres

Shepard's disappointing drive has more to do with the lack of a comfortable suit.

Other than longer drives, how could the sport of golf change in the future, as the sport spreads across the solar system?

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Most likely golf's influence is going to be narrow, and possibly contained in one planet where it is part of their culture.

If that one planet where golf is a culture manages to colonize the other than there is a pertinent question on that which would be, it's not golf anymore it's a variant of golf.

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