abstract:The Nineteenth hole is a slang term used in golf, generally referring to a pub, bar, or restaurant on or near the golf course, very often the clubhouse itself. Golf-Dictionary.
Thisbeautifulvalleywas named afterthe nineteenth-centuryexplorerandhunter David Jackson. Afterhespentawinterinthearea, hisfriendsstartedtocall it "Jackson's Hole."
Entrepreneurs and con men sunk dozens of wells around Fort McMurray in the second half of the nineteenth century. (One enterprising German immigrant who claimed to have struck oil apparently poured the stuff down the hole himself.) Eventually, it became clear that there was no oil, and attention turned to mining the bitumen.