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This 5 page report discusses the larger history of golf – how it evolved and what it has become. It has been fairly well established that golf was actually devised by the Scots in the 14th or 15th century. Since then, golf has evolved into a measured world by which a person can be judged by their awareness of proper etiquette, attitude, and dress, as well as how they hit the ball. Throughout the centuries, certain attitudes and rules transcend nationality and reasons for golf to create golf’s own unique world of beliefs, standards, and ideals. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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more than a game and only slightly less than a religion. Throughout the centuries, certain attitudes and rules transcend nationality and reasons for golf to create golfs own unique world
of beliefs, standards, and ideals. As one of golfs great gurus, Harvey Penick (1992) says: "The deeper you get into golf, the more you learn to value the
freedom, the companionship, the joy of being outdoors in beautiful surroundings, and the profound mysteries of the game itself" (pp. 55). The History of Golf
There are those historians that are convinced that golf originated in the Netherlands (the Dutch word kolf means "club"), but the Romans had a game
played with a bent stick and a ball made of feathers that may have been the original source of the game. It has been fairly well established, however, that the
game actually was devised by the Scots in the 14th or 15th century. The game became so popular in Scotland that in order to keep people from playing golf and
football during time that should have been employed in practicing archery, a military necessity, the Scottish parliament in 1457 passed a law prohibiting both games. The Scottish people, however, largely
ignored this and similar laws, and early in the 16th century James IV, king of Scotland, took up the game of golf. His granddaughter Mary, later Mary, queen of Scots,
took the game to France, where she was educated. The young men who attended her on the golf links were known as cadets ("pupils"); the term was adopted later in
Scotland and England and became caddy or caddie. (Caddies, once an integral feature of the game, have now been largely superseded by golf carts and buggies.) In England the game
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