The PING G irons will get it in play alright â the fact that you barely lose any distance on off-center shots is pure lunacy â but along with the forgiveness, they provide a level of safe ball control that we havenât seen from a GI club before.
He was born in Pisa, and was the oldest of six children in his family. When he was a young man, his father sent him to study medicine at the University of Pisa, but Galileo studied mathematics instead. He later became professor and chair of mathematics at the University. Until about 1609 he taught mathematics, and made several discoveries in physics.
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