Could it be that those professional golfers, who excel at golf, have a stake in golf being honored and recognized as an athletic event, not just a game of skill like billiards?
I like it when a pub has got a pool table. That's my favorite. That's a good thing to do. Like, that's what me and my mates do when we go pub, we we always look for one with a pool table.
People always imagine atoms as billiard balls, they've seen pictures of atoms as billiard balls or with a little electron going round quite a big nucleus, and this is a completely false picture.
The purpose was to determine whether asteroids which might otherwise strike Earth could have their paths altered by what is, in effect, a game of cosmic billiards.
Initial predictions — if it was actually a billiard ball, for instance, all solid rock — predictions were that maybe DART would nudge it off by about 7 minutes.