When and where did golf originate?
It is not known exactly how, nor where the first game of golf was played. The earliest known illustration of a recognisable precursor to golf is found in a ca. 1460 French prayer book from the Touraine known as La Duchesse de Bourgogne, after a former owner. It shows teams playing considerable distances to a grazed green with target stakes (the piquet) as goals, using a curved hockey-like one-piece wooden club (the crosse) for approach shots, and sophisticated putters (the mail), a paralellepiped with three nearly parallel sets of planes, to roll round wooden balls to the target. The use of a hole on ice as a target goal, is depicted in a French book of hours dated ca. 1480; and a hole on a green, in a Flemish prayer book, ca. 1505. The modern game of golf may have reached Scotland in the early 17th century, perhaps imported by Flemings as a favourite recreation. Golf spread from Scotland and has now become a worldwide game, with golf courses in the majority of affluent countries.
Hello, Golf originated in Scotland in a basic form – hit a ball with a club, try to get to the finishing hole with the least strokes as possible. The earliest reference as to when golf started goes back to 1457, when King James II of Scotland banned golf and soccer to keep his men practice archery. But the game continued to develop over the decades and centuries until 1744, when the first golf rules were written down in Edinburgh.
