| Well, who actually did invent the game of Golf? The | | | | that day, the local townsfolk played four holes of the |
| question has been asked and argued for many years | | | | game to commemorate the relieving of the |
| with no true winner. Many countries have a valid claim | | | | Kronenburg Castle exactly one year before. The fact |
| to an early game that resembles the game of golf. | | | | that colf was chosen to mark the occasion is proof |
| Some of the countries that make this claim are | | | | that the game was already popular by that time. |
| England. Scotland, China, Rome, France, The | | | | Great Britain The earliest traces of golf history has |
| Netherlands, Belgium and Laos. The most heated | | | | golf being played are said to date back to 1340, |
| debate over who invented golf definitely comes from | | | | where in a sketch from a stained glass window, the |
| Great Britain and Scotland. | | | | Great East Window, in the east wing of the |
| The first area to look when deciding the answer to | | | | Gloucester Cathedral, England, scenes of the Battle |
| our question must be what actually determines when | | | | of Crecy in France showed a man apparently |
| a game with sticks and balls is golf or another game. | | | | preparing to strike a ball in a golf-like manner. |
| Most countries in the world have had games where | | | | One of the early forms of golf were all missing one |
| you hit an object with a stick at some sort of target. | | | | important ingredient to their games to truly make the |
| Is this enough to be called golf, I don't think so. If so, | | | | game golf and that was the hole. Scotland is widely |
| then these early games could claim the origin of | | | | believed to be the first country to put all the |
| many sports played today. I think it takes more than | | | | ingredients together and actually start a primitive |
| just a game with some kind of object being hit by a | | | | form of the great game of golf. |
| stick to qualify as the origin of golf. | | | | Yes, this will always be a disputed point, who actually |
| Holland is believed to be the origin of the name of | | | | invented the game of golf. If you believe some of |
| golf but not the actual game itself. Holland played a | | | | the claims that the game they were playing was golf |
| game in the 1200s called Colf, which means clubs. | | | | and they didn't have a hole, then you could take this |
| This was a form of golf but once again the form of | | | | same game and turn it into the origin of many games |
| many other sports. | | | | we still play today. I believe the hole is what |
| Colf has been traced back to Dec. 26, 1297, in the | | | | separates all the early claims to who originated the |
| town of Loenen aan de Vecht in northern Holland. On | | | | game of golf. |