When I was a kid my best friend told me that if you open up a golf ball, it would explode. So I didnt go near them until I was a teenager, I was scared to death of them.
A childhood belief about sport

others believed things like this
- my sister told me that bunkers on golf courses were for children to play in while their dads played golf.— Julie
- I used to belive that the Gulf war was actually the Golf war and the people hit each other with golf clubs...— golfgirl
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - I used to think that if you were scared "half to death" that you only had one scare left before you died.— Bush Hiddenofsky
- I believed one of the greatest dangers you could face was quick sand. I was scared to death of it.Anon
- I used to believe that newborn babies didnt open their eyes for a few weeks like kittens :) — Cash