What country invented golf?

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What country invented golf?

Answer 1

Golf originated in scotland in the 1600's

Answer 2

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Golf is a sport in which a player, using several types of clubs, hits a ball into each hole on the golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not use a standardised playing area; rather, the game is played on golf "courses," each one of which has a unique design and typically consists of either 9 or 18 separate holes. Golf is 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."



A golf ball next to a holeThe first game of golf for which records survive was played at Bruntsfield Links, in Edinburgh, Scotland, in A.D. 1456, recorded in the archives of the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society, now The Royal Burgess Golfing Society. Golf has become a worldwide sport, with golf courses in the majority of countries.

Golf competition may be played as stroke play, in which the individual with the lowest number of strokes is declared the winner, or as match play with the winner determined by whichever individual or team posts the lower score on the most individual holes during a complete round. In addition, team events such as fourball have been introduced, and these can be played using either the stroke or matchplay format. Alternative ways to play golf have also been introduced, such as miniature golf, sholf and disc golf.

Golf has increasingly turned into a spectator sport, with several different levels of professional and amateur tours in many regions of the world. People such as Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Annika Sorenstam have become well recognised sports figures across the world. Sponsorship has also become a huge part of the sport and players often earn more from their sponsorship contracts than they do from the sport itself.

Answer 3

Actually, a game was played in Holland about 200 years before the MODERN game of golf was played in Scotland.  The game in Holland was called colf, and played with sticks, a ball that was propelled toward targets, not a hole.  (Note: Colf means sticks in Dutch).

I have attached two articles to point you into this interesting subject that is usually answered simply, "Scotland"!

Answer 4

Being a Scotsman myself, I am proud to say that it was indeed Scotland that invented golf as we know it.

It is true that in Holland they were hitting pebbles with curved sticks - the same as they were doing in Scotland - in the 15th century - but Scotland gave the game of golf something very important - The Hole!

The Gentleman Golfers of Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, laid out the first formal golf course and wrote the first set of golf rules in 1744.

St. Andrews, often referred to as the home of golf, gave the game of golf a standard number of holes in 1764  - 18.

Answer 5

I've always heard Scotland.

Answer 6

Scotland

Answer 7

Scottland.  They had a rule "No Jews and No Blacks." Just Kidding, tiger woods kicks ***.

Answer 8

The Scots of Scotland, in Britain probably conjured up the game (that we know today) during the 16/17th century. Quote from: http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Origin-of-...

"Whatever the early origins, it is indisputable that it was Scotland that gave us the game that we play now. It was that nation which dug holes for targets, and hit the ball from point A into the target. It was the Scots that originated the 18 hole round, a strange number probably due to a restriction in the area of land available for the course.

Although the early forms of golf probably had their own rules, nothing was apparently put in writing until the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers drew up a set of thirteen rules in 1744 for their Annual Edinburgh Silver Club Challenge. These were extended by the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews Rules Committee that was formed in 1897, which has got together with the U.S. Golf Association since 1952 to review and set down a set of rules that is played at all golf championships and domestic competitions throughout the world of golf.

The origin of golf lies, therefore, in the club and ball games played in various parts of the world, and one form of these, likely being played in Holland at the time, went to Scotland where it mutated into golf as we know it today. Although many countries from China, to Italy, to Holland claim the game as their own, it is the Scots who made it what it is now, and who are rightly given the accolade as 'the inventors of golf'."

Answer 9

Scotland, the home of golf.

Answer 10

scotland , sheep hearders carried walking stick . some person inverted it . started hitting rocks with it . then modifications to adapt to play . do golfers love or hate this guy . thanks

Answer 11

Lots of countries have played a stick-and-ball game in which the object is to get the ball to a target. Some claim it was born in France ( see this link for an article: http://www.golfblogger.com/index.php/gol... ) or in China (see this article - look at the page bottom: http://www.golfblogger.com/index.php/gol... ) or in Holland.

They're all wrong. Every bit of serious research done into the subject says that it was Scotland. The earliest written record of golf dates to 1497, when King James banned golf in Scotland because it interfered with archery practice

Answer 12

I once read it was invented in Ireland.

Answer 13

Scotland.  The rest of the world defined it.

Answer 14

I think IRELAND

Answer 15

Bonnie SCOTLAND

Answer 16

Scotland, I'm SURE of it.

Answer 17

Scotland.