Sir: Apropos of the day, likewise apropos of one of your hobbies, it
might interest you to know that golf as a game is of Irish origin, having
been played by Cuchullian, a personality who figures largely in Irish
heroic literature. In fact, it is said that the snakes left Ireland
because of an unsuccessful attempt of a kind old mother snake to hatch
a consignment of golf balls which she mistook for eggs. Whereupon she
rallied all her ilk and they betook themselves to a land more suitable
for incubating purposes.