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Golf is a
club and ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.Golf,
unlike most ball games, cannot
and does not utilize a standardized playing area. The game is played on a
course with an arranged progression of 18 holes. Each hole on the course must
contain a tee box to start from, and a putting green containing the actual hole or cup
(4.25 inches in width). There are other standard forms of terrain in between,
such as the fairway, rough (long grass), sand traps, and hazards (water, rocks,
fescue) but each hole on a course is unique in its specific layout and
arrangement.Golf is played for the lowest number of strokes by an individual,
known as stroke play, or the
lowest score on the most individual holes in a complete round by an individual
or team, known as match play.
Stroke play is the most commonly seen format at all levels.he modern game of
golf originated in 15th-century Scotland, the game's ancient origins are
unclear and much debated. Some historians trace
the sport back to the Roman game of paganica, in which participants used a bent stick to hit a
stuffed leather ball. One theory asserts that paganica spread throughout Europe
as the Romans conquered most of the continent, during the first century BC, and
eventually evolved into the modern game. Others
cite chuiwan ("chui" means striking and "wan" means small
ball) as the progenitor, a Chinese game played between the eighth and 14th
centuries. A Ming
Dynasty scroll dating back to 1368 entitled "The Autumn Banquet"
shows a member of the Chinese Imperial court swinging what appears to be a golf
club at a small ball with the aim of sinking it into a hole. The game is
thought to have been introduced into Europe during the Middle Ages. Another
early game that resembled modern golf was known as cambuca in England and chambot in France. The
Persian game chaugán is
another possible ancient origin. In addition, kolven (a game
involving a ball and curved bats) was played annually in Loenen, Netherlands,
beginning in 1297, to commemorate the capture of the assassin of Floris V, a
year earlier.The modern game originated in Scotland, where the first written
record of golf is James II's banning of the game in 1457, as an unwelcome distraction to
learning archery. James IV lifted
the ban in 1502 when he became a golfer himself, with golf clubs first recorded
in 1503-1504: "For golf clubbes and balles to the King that he playit
with". To many
golfers, the Old Course at St Andrews, a links course dating to before 1574, is considered to be a site of pilgrimage. In 1764, the standard 18-hole golf course was created at St
Andrews when members modified the course from 22 to 18 holes Golf is documented as being played on Musselburgh Links, East
Lothian, Scotland as early as 2 March 1672, which is certified as the oldest
golf course in the world by Guinness World Records. The oldest surviving rules of golf were
compiled in March 1744 for the Company of Gentlemen Golfers, later renamed The Honourable Company
of Edinburgh Golfers, which was played at Leith, Scotland. The world's oldest golf tournament in
existence, and golf's first major, is The Open Cmpionship, which was first played on 17
October 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club, in Ayrshire, Scotland, with Scottish golfers winning
the earliest majors. Two
Scotsmen from rDunfermline, John Reid and Robert Lockhart, first
demonstrated golf in the US by setting up a hole in an orchard in 1888, with
Reid setting up America's first golf club.
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