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