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The Romans played a game with a bent stick and
a ball made of feathers that could be the antecedent of the game of golf.
Some historians believe that would have originated in the Netherlands and
the term comes from the word Hollandaise "kolf" meaning stick.
The first news about the sport comes from S.
XV, in Scotland, where, legend has it - golf is 18 holes because whiskey has 18
measures. He then had great acceptance, as King James II banned it so that his
subjects would not abandon the arts of defense for war. By 1500 this ban was
lifted by the popularity it also had reached, and it ignored the law.
At its inception, the course managed to compete
as equals, nobles and commoners. The first match of which data are available,
is the Prince of Wales played with John Paterson (shoemaker very good at the
game) in 1682.
In 1744 he founded the first association of
players in Scotland and in 1745, also in the United Kingdom established its
first rules of golf. The first golf associations were organized in the
eighteenth century: the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers (1744) The St.
Andrews Society of Golfers (1754).
Golf was introduced in England in 1608. The
first clubs were formed out of Britain were the Calcutta Golf Club of East India
(1829) and the Royal Bombay Club (1842). The first golf club established in
America was Canada's Royal Montreal Golf Club, founded in 1873. In 1888 he
founded the St. Andrews Golf Club of Yonkers, New York. The Spanish first golf
club was established in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) in 1891. In 1900 the course
underwent regulatory innovations, including the invention of the "par" which is
considered a criterion for calculating the handicap.
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