History of Golf

Of course, we known that golf, in the form in which we know it today first appeared in Scotland. Scots have played an early form of golf - you take a stick, beat her on the ball, there is thus moving the ball from the starting point to the final pole fewest blows - by mid-15 th century.

And indeed, the earliest mention of golf belongs to King James II of Scotland, who in 1457 issued a decree banning golf and soccer. James complained that the game distracted him from training archers. James III in 1471 and James IV in 1491 and issued their orders, repeating a ban on golf.

However, the game continued to grow in Scotland for centuries and decades, until in 1744 in Edinburgh did not appear the first known written rules of the game of golf.

Golf, which played then easily able to find any modern golfer. But can we say that the Scots "invented" golf? Not really, because there are strong evidence that the Scots have influenced the earlier forms of gaming, in fact, very similar to golf.