history of golf

Introduction

This web site you are about to see is all about golf and its history. How it got started, where they played, how they first played it and also what the word GOLF many mean. This web site is not just going to be all about the pass we will talk about todays golf and how much it has changed over the years.

Table of contents
How and why the sport got started?
Equipment.
Rules of the game from today and the past.
the evolution of golf.

How and why the sport got started?
most people say that golf started in scotland, but most people dont know that in roman times people would play a game similar to what they played in scotland it was called paganica, they would hit a rock or stone with a stick and hitting it toward a goal. but people were playing kind of the same thing it was the same thing but they would hit the stone or rock into rabbit holes. then the first golf course was built in 1774, st. andrew's in scotland. Also many people back then said that golf means Gentlemen only ladies forbidden.

Equipment
The equipment of golf has changed a lot just like everything else but sometimes i doesnt take stokes aways its always about the player with the equipment.

Clubs Balls

       NOW                                     BACK THEN                               NOW                          BACK THEN

                                                                                     Tees

NOW BACK THEN

Rules of the game from today and the past.
The rules have change a lot over the year but i think it be better if you see them your self. So take a look.

WRITTEN IN 1774

    1     You must tee your ball within one club's length of the hole.

    2     Your tee must be on the ground.

    3     You are not to change the ball which you strike off the tee.

    4     You are not to remove stones, bones or any break club for the sake of playing your ball, except on the fair green, and that only within a club's length of your ball.

    5     If your ball comes among water, or any watery filth, you are at liberty to take out your ball and bringing it behind the hazard and teeing it, you may play it with any club and allow your adversary a stroke for so getting out your ball.

    6     If your balls be found anywhere touching one another you are to lift the first ball till you play the last.

    7     At holeing you are to play your ball honestly for the hole, and not to play upon your adversary's ball, not lying in your way to the hole.

    8     If you should lose your ball, by its being taken up, or any other way, you are to go back to the spot where you struck last and drop another ball and allow your adversary a stroke for the misfortune.

    9     No man at holeing his ball is to be allowed to mark his way to the hold with his club or anything else.

    10     If a ball be stopp'd by any person, horse or dog, or anything else, the ball so stopp'd must be played where it lyes.

    11     If you draw your club in order to strike and proceed so far in the stroke as to be bringing down your club; if then your club shall break in any way, it is to be accounted a stroke.

    12     He who whose ball lyes farthest from the hole is obliged to play first.

    13     Neither trench, ditch or dyke made for the preservation of the links, nor the Scholar's Holes or the soldier's lines shall be accounted a hazard but the ball is to be taken out, teed and play'd with any iron club.

RULES NOW
Now the sport has a lot of rules they have rules for everything so its to many to post. But if you would like to check them out you can go to. http://www.golfsurround.com/play/the-rules-of-golf.cfm

The evolution of golf.

Golf has changed alot from the things we use to the rules that they have. in the end its almost all the same you hit a ball in to a 4 inche cup not much different from hitting a stone into a rabbit hole. But all that has changed over the years you just have learnd about.

Information Websites

The History of Golf