Golf, as we know it today was born in algn place on the east coast of Scotland in the early fifteenth century. Some historians believe that golf Passes it originated in the Netherlands (Holland kolf the word means “club”), but the Romans tenan a game that used a bent stick and a ball made of feathers, which can have been the original source of the game.
Achieved so much boom that King James II was forced to enact an Act in 1457 that its practice ponalmites to keep people playing during the time that must have been practicing archery (the first written document referred to golf). However, the law did not have much success.
The Scots, however, ignored sta and other similar laws since the early sixteenth century, King James IV of Scotland, took up the game of golf.
His granddaughter Mara, Mara later Scots, took the game to France, where she was raised. Aides in the golf links were known as cadets (pupils), the Terms will be adopted later in Scotland and England and became a caddy or caddy.
The first reference to golf at St. Andrews poblacin historical maps dating from 1552.
Ao Back in 1600, the golf was all the rage among the aristocracy in London. By then, ladies and gentlemen in evening dress playing in the same heart of the city, so broken doors, windows, … and the transentes heran. The authorities had to intervene to protect the public, and forced players to play the field.
In the eighteenth century established the first golf associations such as the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers (1744), the St. Andrews Society of Golfers (1754), which in 1834 tom its current name, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews by granting King William and the Royal Blackheath (1766), near London, where it was agreed to set a date for the Introduction of golf in England in 1608.
The forerunner of the British Open, the first major, is jug first in 1860 and was won by Willie Park. The legend of Father Tom Morris came when gan in event in 1862, 1864 and 1867. However his son, Young Tom Morris, was the first gan field to get the tournament four consecutive times since 1869. Other illustrious winners were JH Taylor in 1894 and Harry Vardon in 1896. Together with James Braid, hese three men were known as the Great Triumvirate.
In Spain, the first golf club is growing in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) in 1891.
In 1894, he established the American Association of Golf (United States Golf Association – USGA) to regulate gambling in the United States and Mexico. In addition to rules dealing with the handicap system. The U.S. Open U.S. Women’s Amateur was inaugurated in 1895.
In 1921, the R & A imposed a tamaoy MLCBI the weight of the golf ball that produced a separation between the game in Europe and Amrica (regulated by the USGA). The majority of the differences were resolved in 1951 when the two associations have agreed common rules. However, the differences in the ball were not mentioned until 1988. Currently the golf mndial jointly regulated by the R & A and the USGA. Every four years agree the amendments to be published in the Official Rules of Golf.
Augusta field opened in 1933. The first U.S. Masters and jug all in 1934 and was won by Horton Smith. Gary Player of South Africa broke the American monopoly to win in 1961.
Possibly the most famous golf swing has been given which is never realiz Alan Shephard hitting a ball on the moon in 1971, which was watched by an audience of millions of people around the world. It does this by practicing golf the first sport in space?
