OLD COURSE
GOLF Scottish birthplace
The game of golf is believed to have originated from a game played on the rolling links lands of the Fife coastal town of St Andrews during the 1400’s.
Players would hit a pebble around the sand dunes of the natural links lands using a stick.
Claims that the ancient Dutch game of kolven and the French game jeu de mail were actually forerunners of golf have been dismissed by historians.
Neither had the single, most important element which makes golf what it is - the hole!
How golf actually started isn’t known.
One of the most popular theories has it that fishermen on the east coast of Scotland invented the game to amuse themselves as they returned home from their boats
The King gets nasty
'Gowf' soon became very popular in Scotland.
So popular in fact that in 1457, the reigning monarch, King James II, persuaded the Scottish Parliament to ban it!
He was worried that his subjects were spending too much time playing golf and not enough time practicing their archery skills.
The king felt that this jeopardised the defence of the realm at a time when Scotland was preparing to defend itself against an English invasion.
The ban was reaffirmed in 1470 and 1491 although many people largely ignored it.
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