How did golf begin?

Yesterday there was a question left for you:" But can it be said that the Scots 'invented' golf?" Have you thought of it, or searched online to find out the truth? LOL…Actually the truth is there is no truth, because no one actually experienced that period and is still alive right now. We just have to research through what we found, but there is strong evidence that the Scots were influenced themselves by even earlier versions of games that were similar in nature.

 
What the USGA Museum declares: "While many Scots firmly maintain that golf evolved from a family of stick-and-ball games widely practiced throughout the British Isles during the Middle Ages, considerable evidence suggests that the game derived from stick-and-ball games that were played in France, Germany and the Low Countries."

Part of that evidence is the etymology of the word "golf" itself. "Golf" derives from the Old Scots terms “glove” or "goff", which themselves evolved from the medieval Dutch term "kolf".

 
As we know, there is also a saying that golf was invented by Dutch people, which got us so confused, because they both gave evidence. However what I am editing is trying to make this clearer for you.

Therefore please visit our site again tomorrow to find out what was going on in the past.
 

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