[Ads-l] antedating of Mulligan(golf extra shot) 1933

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OED 1936

24 April 1933 -The Detroit Free Press_  15/8 [using the premium content of Newspapers.com]

Golfer Calls Shot as He Scores Ace

  A.E. Dixon asked for a "mulligan" and got a hole-in-one.  
  A "mulligan" in golf is a practice shot or an extra shot.

Nothing else in the short article to indicate an origin.

-Sam Clements

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