Who in 1899 was granted a US patent for the wooden golf tee?

George Franklin Grant,Harvard University's first Black faculty member,as an avid golfer, he was unhappy with the mess that came with the tee shot. The process of teeing the ball up involved pinching moist sand to fashion a tee. Doing that 18 times a round was enough to annoy him, so he came up with an invention that would forever have an impact. On Dec. 12, 1899, he received U.S. patent #638,920, the world's first patent for a golf tee.

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