Golf is a game, commonly thought to have begun in Scotland at some time before the mid-fifteenth century, in which individuals compete to strike a small ball with a club in an attempt to drive the ball into series of holes on a course, divided into eighteen areas of different lengths and difficulty, with the fewest strokes possible. Although the origins of golf are cloudy, written records affirm that golf flourished in Scotland by the fifteenth century. It was not until the late nineteenth... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2022. 3p.