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What nation invented golf? A lot of nations did. If there were sticks and objects that could be hurtled along, then there was golf. No one particular knows for specific who began golf. But everybody knows who plays it now everyone does.

The origin of the name golf is believed to be the Dutch word of 'colf,' which means 'club.' In the medieval ages, golf was also known as spel metten colve, which literally meant 'game with clubs.'

Practically each spot about the world has some claim to the origination of golf. Scotland, of course, has its claim. But so do China, Rome, England, France, Holland, Belgium, even Laos. Each country has a game consisting of sticks and balls, and each nation is appropriate in its assumption that it invented the game. But there is no one particular nation exactly where golf really started.

Nevertheless, Scotland is widely thought of to be birthplace of golf. And it began haphazardly, a way of hitting a pebble or other roundish object into a hole by means of a stick or club.

Edinburgh, Scotland, claimed the first golfing society. The Gentlemen Golfers later known as the Honourable Firm of Edinburgh Golfers and today in residence at Muirfield  claim their club was currently below way in 1744.

The initial inter-Scotland club matches had been played in 1857. The planet would wait till 1860 for the first British Open to be played.

The British Open was getting played 35 years prior to the U.S. Open. It has been called The World Open. Players from around the globe participate, as they have for a century or much more. The British Open is all-inclusive. The U.S. Open has been moving in that direction for the final decade. But the British Open has been accepting a cast from around the planet considering that the turn of the century.

It is not known for certain when golf came to America only that when it got a toehold in the 20th century, America became the world leader in excellent players. By 1900, the explosion of the game in America was complete. Proof was that, at the turn of the century, there had been a lot more golf clubs in the United States than there were in Britain.

Tiger Woods came upon the scene in 1996. He won eight times in 1999, nine occasions in 2000, and won the four key championships in succession in 2000-2001, starting with the U.S. Open in 2000. Really should his career be as productive in his 30s and 40s as it has been in his 20s, he will assume the mantle of finest player ever.

Girls have played a really large part in the background of golf, even ahead of the final half of the 20th century when they ultimately achieved equality with guys. Records of ladies playing golf exist all the way back to the time of Mary Queen of Scots.

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