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The exact origin of the game of golf remains a topic of ongoing debate. Although Scotland is generally considered as the birthplace of the game, as it is played today. This statement is due largely to a series of specific historical references dating from the mid 15th century.

The most commonly cited of these references is a written record that a game called both geoff, gowf or gawd, this is a hard game was played during the reign of James II of Scotland. In 1457 King James proclaimed by Royal Decree that the reproduction of "fluteball:" gowf "and was prohibited so that the men of Scotland could concentrate on their practice of archery.

So the pursuit of outlaw golf remained until the signing of the Treaty of Glasgow, in the year of 1501 m which brought peace between the warring parties. At this point too James IV of Scotland took the game of golf to himself. Ensued a long relationship between golf and royalty-although both commoners and gentry alike frowned upon Mary Queen of Scots, in 1567, when he was found to be only playing golf days after the death of her husband Darney.

In an alternative theory of early golf, a Dutch historian, Steven von Hengel, claimed that golf was born in Holland around 1297. A form of the game called spel metten kove and also called Maid. Maid service, it is believed, was played primarily on the ice. However golf may have grown out of this game and another game that was popular in the Netherlands, called Jeu De Mail. This letter carrying the game is played as wood with soft spikes.

Without that important golf demand growth has occurred in Britain, mainly in Scotland. Golf has become part of culture accepted since 1604, when William Mayne was appointed Royal Clubmaker, although the game was still reserved for the elite who had wealth and free time to enjoy. Early golf has been played with a ball feathery golf-ball stitched leather stuffed with boiled goose feathers. A ball of feathers costs three times as much as a club and why feathered balls were so delicate, players were required to carry three-six balls In addition that the balls barely flew in wet weather, a fact that dissuaded even further the working class which, unlike the small nobility does not possess the flexibility of time and leisure for scheduled games of golf.

The ball, as it has done throughout history, other issues related to the development of the game. Since the ball feathered so inadequately performed when wet, the beginning of golf has been played mainly relatively arid eastern side of Scotland. Furthermore the location along the eastern shore was popular because the underlying drained sandy soil more quickly than the and the grass was of course shorter. It should be noted that the invention of lawn mower is a relatively current event. Along the way, this grassy sea Golf short position came to be defined as links too.

If the debate over whether the Scottish or Dutch created the game of golf, the Scots were certainly a hand in creating the golf club. Leith is considered the cradle of golf and the golf club called the Honorable Society of Gentleman golfers was founded by William St Clair in Leith in 1744 and later became the company of Edinburgh golfers. Ten years later, the Royal and ancient Golf company comes under it's original name, St Andrews players. The Royal and ancient Golf Club runs the British Open and British Amateur who assumed duties in 1919, and from 1951 he administered the rules of golf in collaboration with the United States Golf Association. The r & a has also established 18 hole golf course as the standard. In 1764, the old course at St. Andrews consisted of 22 holes with golfers playing 11 holes out and return 11. At the end of the last 4 holes on each side, all short converted into 2 holes leaving 18 to be played.

So is the history and origins of our modern game of golf that we treasure today.