Golf History
History of Golf
Golf as we know it today originated from a game played on the eastern coast of Scotland in the Kingdom of Fife during the 15th century. Players would hit a pebble around a natural course of sand dunes, rabbit runs and tracks using a stick or primitive club.
Some historians believe that Kolven from Holland and Cole from Belgium influenced the game. The latter was introduced into Scotland in 1421. However while these games and countless others are stick and ball games, they are missing that vital ingredient that is unique to golf - the hole. Whatever the argument, there can be no dispute that Scotland gave birth to the game we know as golf today.
Golf's status and popularity quickly spread throughout the 16th century …show more content…
Indeed King Charles was on the course when given the news of the Irish rebellion of 1641. Leith was also the scene of the first international golf match in 1682 when the Duke of York and George Patterson playing for Scotland beat two English noblemen.
The Gentlemen Golfers of Leith in 1744 was the first club and was formed to promote an annual competition with a silver golf club as the prize. Duncan Forbes drafted the club's rules, which were
* You must tee your ball within one club's length of the hole.
* Your tee must be on the …show more content…
* No man at holeing his ball is to be allowed to mark his way to the hole with his club or anything else.
* If a ball be stopped by any person, horse or dog, or anything else, the ball so stopped must be played where it lies.
* If you draw your club in order to strike and proceed so far in the stroke as to be bringing down your club; if then your club shall break in any way, it is to be accounted a stroke.
* He who whose ball lies farthest from the hole is obliged to play first.
* Neither trench, ditch or dyke made for the preservation of the links, nor the Scholar's Holes or the soldier's lines shall be accounted a hazard but the ball is to be taken out, teed and played with any iron club.
The first women's golf club in the world was formed there in 1895. King William honored the club with the title 'Royal & Ancient' in 1834 and the new famous clubhouse was formed in 1854. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews became the premier golf club because of its fine course, the publication of rules, its royal patronage and its promotion of the game as a proper
Golf as we know it today originated from a game played on the eastern coast of Scotland in the Kingdom of Fife during the 15th century. Players would hit a pebble around a natural course of sand dunes, rabbit runs and tracks using a stick or primitive club.
Some historians believe that Kolven from Holland and Cole from Belgium influenced the game. The latter was introduced into Scotland in 1421. However while these games and countless others are stick and ball games, they are missing that vital ingredient that is unique to golf - the hole. Whatever the argument, there can be no dispute that Scotland gave birth to the game we know as golf today.
Golf's status and popularity quickly spread throughout the 16th century …show more content…
Indeed King Charles was on the course when given the news of the Irish rebellion of 1641. Leith was also the scene of the first international golf match in 1682 when the Duke of York and George Patterson playing for Scotland beat two English noblemen.
The Gentlemen Golfers of Leith in 1744 was the first club and was formed to promote an annual competition with a silver golf club as the prize. Duncan Forbes drafted the club's rules, which were
* You must tee your ball within one club's length of the hole.
* Your tee must be on the …show more content…
* No man at holeing his ball is to be allowed to mark his way to the hole with his club or anything else.
* If a ball be stopped by any person, horse or dog, or anything else, the ball so stopped must be played where it lies.
* If you draw your club in order to strike and proceed so far in the stroke as to be bringing down your club; if then your club shall break in any way, it is to be accounted a stroke.
* He who whose ball lies farthest from the hole is obliged to play first.
* Neither trench, ditch or dyke made for the preservation of the links, nor the Scholar's Holes or the soldier's lines shall be accounted a hazard but the ball is to be taken out, teed and played with any iron club.
The first women's golf club in the world was formed there in 1895. King William honored the club with the title 'Royal & Ancient' in 1834 and the new famous clubhouse was formed in 1854. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews became the premier golf club because of its fine course, the publication of rules, its royal patronage and its promotion of the game as a proper