Are there golf balls on the moon?

Yes. There are actually two of them.

Alan Shepard made his second space flight as commander of Apollo 14, in 1971. Shepard piloted his Lunar Module to the most accurate landing of the entire Apollo program.

While on the Moon, Shepard played golf with a Wilson six-iron attached to a lunar sample scoop handle. Despite thick gloves and a stiff spacesuit which forced him to swing the club with one hand only, Shepard struck two golf balls with a six iron, driving the second, as he jokingly put it, "miles and miles and miles."

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