DID YOU KNOW? for November 8 – 21, 2022: 

DID YOU KNOW…An African American dentist, Dr. George F Grant, was the inventor of the wooden golf tee.  On Dec. 12, 1899, Boston dentist George F. Grant received a U.S. patent No. 638,920, the world’s first patent for ‘a wooden spike with a flexible rubber peg for the ball’ – a golf tee! Before this time, golfers carried small buckets of sand for pinching a mound of damp sand to elevate a golf ball on the tee box.  

By 1899 Dr. Grant was working at Harvard Dental School and recognized internationally in dentistry circles as an inventor of inserts for patients with cleft palates. While living in the Boston area he became an avid golfer. Though Dr. Grant never pursued large-scale manufacturing or sales of his golf tee invention, he did have them produced in small batches and regularly gave them away to friends and golf partners.

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