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The History of Golf
By: GregoryLG

Golf is a game that is steeped with history and tradition, honesty and integrity. Since the beginning of the history of golf, the game seemed to have immediate universal appeal. Beginning on the linksland surrounding St. Andrews, Scotland, golf was played by royalty and commoner alike. The original courses were "designed by God" as golfers played the sandy land exactly the way it was formed through centuries of wind and water erosion. The original golfers played, literally, with a handful of wooden clubs shaped like today's hybrids and named things like spoon, cleek, mashie and niblick.

The spirit of the game seems to have this mystical quality that has sustained it's character since golf's inception. Part of that has to do with the rich history of golf, and the game remains one of the few things that seems to be able to hold on to and stay in touch with it's storied past. In fact, some of the original thirteen rules formed by the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers remains intact today.

Other characteristics of the game seem to tug at parts of the human soul and touch people's nature at their core. Players experience the joys and challenges of standing on a tee box and viewing a patch of green land on the horizon, with the expanse in-between waiting to be traversed. Golf is a game that can be enjoyed in quiet, introspective solitude or in the raucous company . . .

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