Why do people yell fore in golf?
Golfers yell, “Fore!” to let others know there might be a small ball sailing perilously close to their head within the next few seconds. It is basically a warning for others to duck out of the way. Golf, like many games involving a ball propelled at speed, can sometimes incur injuries to both players and spectators. When a player hits a ball across the green it can often go off course and end up near spectators or other players, and if a golf ball hits you on the head, it hurts. A lot! Many people who are new to the game of golf often ask, “Why do people yell fore in golf?” This is hardly surprising as it seems such an absurd thing to say! Why would you not just shout, “Duck!”? The shout of ‘fore’ is a shortened version of ‘watch out for the ball’ and is only yelled when the ball has gone astray from its intended path. If golfers were required to shout the entire sentence each time they hit the ball off course, most of us would be knocked on the head before we had even heard half of th
