These days you can play a round on the ice floes in the Arctic, in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq and on the plains of Africa. The rich history of the sport has produced a wealth of screwball, outlandish and just plain weird tales: * Golf was invented in Scotland over 500 years ago, but the Chinese claim a similar game as far back as 943 AD * In a three-day span on a course in Wales, a mother, father and son each made a hole-in-one; the odds...