Golf

Golf is a sport game by using a special tool called a stick bat or golf club to hit the ball up into the hole being played on large tracts of land specially designed. This land is usually called a golf course or golf course. A golf course has a number of holes as the target of this game which generally consists of 9 holes or 18 holes. Golfers must accomplishing 18 holes on any one game.

Playing golf is basically playing the ball into the hole 18 times, starting teebox that ends with inserting hole in putting green. Each hole has only one hole. The hole is usually marked with a flag or plugged. Thus is repeated on subsequent fields as many as 18 holes.

The origin of golf is unclear, but various groups generally agree with the theory of golf sport originated from Scotland in the 1100s. First it was the Scottish shepherds banging small stone to get into the rabbit nest hole in what is now the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.

Golf game ever played on February 26, 1297 in the Netherlands, in the city of Loenen aan de Vecht. The Dutch played with a stick and a leather ball. The winner is the player that is most on target with the ball.

From the report by Professor Ling Hongling of Lanzhou University shows that the game is similar to golf, then was played in China during the era of the Southern Tang Dynasty, about 500 years before golf was mentioned for the first time in Scotland.

In the archives of China written on official Tang Dynasty South who taught her daughter how to dig holes in the ground and put the ball into it. According to Ling Hongling, Golf introduced by Mongolia to Europe and then Scotland in the late Middle Ages.

Golf game that is known now generally regarded as the invention of Scotland since the 15th century the existing Act contains a prohibition of the Scottish Parliament Play Golf. Nevertheless, some scholars argue the legislation refer to other types of games are more like shinty, hurling or field hockey, and golf is not known now.

Facts have shown that the Golf "Modern" originated and developed in Scotland. The first permanent golf course is also located in Scotland, as well as golf club membership system in the first. The first written rules that govern the game of golf is also from Scotland, and also 18-hole golf course is the first in Scotland. The first official golf tournament contested between golfers from various cities in Scotland. Not much later, the modern golf game spread to England, and then to the whole world.

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