I always wondered about that - Inventor of the golf Tee

[packman]

George Franklin Grant, 1847-1910". Harvard. Retrieved 2007-05-24. "Dr. George Franklin Grant (1847-1910) of Oswego, New York, received a degree from the Harvard Dental School in 1870 and then joined the faculty as an authority on mechanical dentistry. He was the first African-American faculty member at the university and remembered today for his invention and patenting of the golf tee."
George Franklin Grant is the only one of Tudor E. Grant's four children who left much of a historical trail, but it's an intriguing one, notably for an invention used by millions of golfers. 'Born in 1847 in Oswego to Tudor and Phillis Pitt Grant, he was educated in Oswego but apparently left home at age 15 after an argument with his father over his taste in clothes. He went to work for an Oswego dentist named S.A. Smith, toiling in a laboratory for five years, according to a Boston Public Library document."
his contribution to the game was through ingenuity and resourcefulness rather than playing ability. Grant received a patent for the golf tee in 1899. His was the blueprint for today's wooden and plastic tees. He owned the first patent, but it took almost a century to receive recognition for his invention."

Before that momentous invention, golfers carried around a bucket of sand to elevate their balls (laff injected here) .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Franklin_Grant

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1. don't tell donnie, he might give up the game and spend more time damaging our country!

[Flaleftist]

3. He will just claim he invented it

“I came up with it. I guess some people might have used it before, but I don’t know. It wasn’t really popular until I started using it”

[Orrex]

7. No, Trump will simply order Paul Ryan to continue holding his balls for him

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8. !

[underpants]

2. So it's all his fault

[Brother Buzz]

4. I'm betting the doctor invented it on a Wednesday

[PoliticAverse]

6. I've heard Trump invented a tee which is the most amazing incredible tee ever. One free with...

every Trump steak.

[PoliticAverse]

5. He didn't really invent the golf tee which is why his patent says - have invented an Improvement

in golf tees.

His golf tee was the first one made of wood that sticks in the ground but his tee was never commercially manufactured.

The current tee used is a slight modification of his tee (and patented in 1925).

History of the gold tee:
https://www.thoughtco.com/golf-tees-a-humble-equipment-1562737