"Golf"

The Romans practiced a game with a curved stick and a ball made of feathers that could be the background of the game of golf. Some historians argue that it would have originated in the Netherlands and that the term comes from the Dutch word "kolf", which means stick. The first news about this sport comes from S. XV, in Scotland, where-according to legend - the golf course has 18 holes because whisky has 18 steps. In second place was wide acceptance, and the King James II banned what his subjects not to abandon the arts of defence for war. By 1500 that the ban was lifted by the popularity which also had reached, and was unaware that Act. In its beginnings, golf was able to compete on equal terms, nobles and commoners. The first match of which data are available, is the one who played the Prince of Wales with John Paterson (cobbler very good at the game) in 1682. In 1744 he founded the first association of players in Scotland, in 1745, also in the United Kingdom established its first regulation golf. The first golf associations were organized in the eighteenth century: the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers (1744), St. Andrews Society of Golfers (1754). The course is introduced in England in 1608. The first clubs were formed outside England were Calcutta Golf Club of East India (1829) and the Royal Bombay Club (1842). The first golf club was established in America was Canada's Royal Montreal Golf Club, founded in 1873. In 1888 he founded the St.. Andrews Golf Club of Yonkers, New York. The Spanish first golf club was established in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) in 1891. In 1900 golf suffered regulatory innovations, including the invention of the "couple" is considered a criterion for calculating the handicap.