When and where did golf begin?

Some play golf for fitness; some play golf for interests; some play golf for a living.

Some know truly everything about golf; some know little; some are not interested in knowing; some hear things about golf but never challenge the old news.

Well, for what is known as an universal acknowledgement that golf emerged in Scotland and first known in 1457 when King James II of Scotland issued a ban on the playing of golf and football. What is worse, later James III in 1471 and James IV in 1491 each re-issued the ban on golf. However, the game continued to develop in Scotland over the decades and centuries, until 1744 when the first-known rules of golf were put down in writing in Edinburgh.

Golf as it was then played would be easily recognized by any modern golfer, because the game was not this hard or complicated in recent days. The Scots were playing golf in its very basic form - take a club, swing it at a ball, move ball from starting point to finishing hole in as few strokes as possible.

Therefore, it is believed that we cannot say golf was invented by the Scots. Do you want to know why? Please visit our website tomorrow for there will be an explanation you are looking forward to.

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