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Where
and When Did Golf Begin? (When We're Golf
Clubs an Golf Balls First Used?)
It's definitely true that golf as we know it emerged in Scotland.
The Scots were playing golf in its very basic form - take a club,
swing it at a ball, move ball from starting point to finishing hole
in as few strokes as possible - by at least the mid-15th Century.
In fact, the earliest known reference to golf comes from King James
II of Scotland, who, in 1457, issued a ban on the playing of golf
and football (soccer). Those games, James complained, were keeping
his archers from their practice. James III in 1471 and James IV in
1491 each re-issued the ban on golf. But the game continued to develop
in Scotland over the decades and centuries, until 1744 when the first-known
rules of golf were put down in writing in Edinburgh.
Golf as it was
then played would be easily recognized by any modern golfer. But can
it be said that the Scots "invented" golf? Not quite, because there's
strong evidence that the Scots were influenced themselves by even
earlier versions of games that were similar in nature. Here's what
the USGA Museum says about the issue: "While many Scots firmly maintain
that golf evolved from a family of stick-and-ball games widely practiced
throughout the British Isles during the Middle Ages, considerable
evidence suggests that the game derived from stick-and-ball games
that were played in France, Germany and the Low Countries." Part of
that evidence is the etymology of the word "golf" itself. "Golf" derives
from the Old Scots terms "golve" or "goff," which themselves evolved
from the medieval Dutch term "kolf." The medieval Dutch term "kolf"
meant "club," and the Dutch were playing games (mostly on ice) at
least by the 14th Century in which balls were struck by sticks that
were curved at the bottom until they were moved from Point A to Point
B. Sounds a lot like hockey, doesn't it? Except that it sort of sounds
like golf, too (except for that ice part).
The Dutch and Scots were trading partners, and the fact that the word
"golf" evolved after being transported by the Dutch to the Scots lends
credence to the idea that the game itself may have been adapted by
the Scots from the earlier Dutch game. Something else that lends credence
to that idea: Although the Scots played their game on parkland (rather
than ice), they (or least some of them) were using balls they acquired
in trade from ... Holland. And the Dutch game wasn't the only similar
game of the Middle Ages. Going back even farther, the Romans brought
their own stick-and-ball game into the British Isles. So does that
mean that the Dutch (or someone else other than that Scots) invented
golf? No, it means that golf grew out of games that were played in
different parts of Europe. But we're not trying to deny the Scots
their place in golf history. The Scots made a singular improvement
to all the games that came before: They dug a hole in the ground,
and made getting the ball into that hole the object of the game. As
we said at the beginning, for golf as we know it, we definitely have
the Scots to thank.
Article by Brent Kelly |
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