The History of Golf

Golf is a club and ball sport in which players utilize different types of clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes with a wide varieties of courses, competitors are to compete for the lowest number of strokes and to get the ball in to the hole.

Millions of people around the world plays golf every day for numerous of purposes. For centuries, golf became a popular sport among young and old people, and both men and women. Golf started long ago with people using wooden sticks and pebbles. As the world advance, so did golf, with the technology nowadays, golf industries are able to design high quality clubs to fit anybody’s height, size of hand, and different types of posture.

People believed golf started from a game played on the eastern shore of Scotland in the Kingdom of Fife during the fifteenth century. Players would hit a rock around a course of sand dunes, rabbit runs and tracks by using a stick.

The origins of golf are indistinct and much discussed. Nonetheless, it is commonly acknowledged that modern golf was found in Scotland from the Middle Ages. The amusement did not discover worldwide fame until the late nineteenth century, when it spread into the United Kingdom and afterward to the British Empire and the United States.

Paganica

From the golf earliest origins, it was traced back to the Roman game of paganica. It is a type of sport that participants uses a wooden stick to make contact with a stuffed leather ball.

Chuiwan

Later a game similar to the concept of golf was discovered in China during the Song Dynasty called Chuiwan. A Chinese scholar suggested that the game should be introduced to Europe.

Around 1457, the Scottish Parliament passed several acts banning the sport, along with other sports, due to the interference with the military practice, which at the time was necessary for national securities. Around 1500, James IV himself lifted the ban and became a golfer himself. The sport of golf then became a proud and well-known sport in Scotland. The oldest golf course is also located in Scotland on Musselburgh Links, East Lothian. It is still a popular site that many golf still visits.

 

Picture Reference:

http://drimacclothing.blogspot.com/2015/08/did-you-know.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuiwan

https://ladiesgolfshoppe.com/the-history-of-women-and-golf-a-look-back

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