GOLF THE GAME OF LIFE
Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams of players strike a ballinto a hole using several types of clubs. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed, standardised playing field or area; defined in the Rules of Golf as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."
The first game of golf for which records survive was played at bruntsfield links, in Edinburgh , Scotland, in A.D. 1456, recorded in the archivesof the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society, now The Royal Burgess Golfing Society.
Etymology
The word golf was first mentioned in writing in 1457 on a Scottish statute on forbidden games as gouf, possibly derived from the Scots word goulf (variously spelled) meaning "to strike or cuff". This word may, in turn, be derived from the Dutch word kolf, meaning "bat," or "club," and the Dutch sport of the same name. But there is an even earlier reference to the game of golf and it is believed to have happened in 1452 when King James II banned the game because it kept his subjects from their archery practice. It is often claimed that the word originated as an acronym for "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden", but this is an urban legend.
Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams of players strike a ballinto a hole using several types of clubs. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed, standardised playing field or area; defined in the Rules of Golf as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."
The first game of golf for which records survive was played at bruntsfield links, in Edinburgh , Scotland, in A.D. 1456, recorded in the archivesof the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society, now The Royal Burgess Golfing Society.
Etymology
The word golf was first mentioned in writing in 1457 on a Scottish statute on forbidden games as gouf, possibly derived from the Scots word goulf (variously spelled) meaning "to strike or cuff". This word may, in turn, be derived from the Dutch word kolf, meaning "bat," or "club," and the Dutch sport of the same name. But there is an even earlier reference to the game of golf and it is believed to have happened in 1452 when King James II banned the game because it kept his subjects from their archery practice. It is often claimed that the word originated as an acronym for "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden", but this is an urban legend.
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