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Scotland is normally considered as the birthplace of golf, but there is great debate about the
earliest origin of the game.
Some historians believe that golf descended from a...
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PRUEBAS DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD
Curso 2006-2007
UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO
INGLÉS
Scotland is normally considered as the birthplace of golf, but there is great debate about the
earliest origin of the game.
Some historians believe that golf descended from a game that the
Romans brought with them to Britain.
Another idea is that golf was a Dutch game and there are
paintings from the 18th century by Dutch painters showing a game similar to golf being played on
ice and land.
However, it is believed that, by this time, some form of golf had been played in
Scotland for three hundred years.
The name golf may have been derived from the old Scots verb “to gowff” meaning to “strike
hard”.
In 1457, King James II was worried that his citizens were so involved in this leisurely
pastime that they were forgetting the Royal and vital sport of shooting arrows, which would protect
him from the enemy.
But in 1502 the Scots were finally allowed to practise golf and other similar
pastimes.
Even Mary Q
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