What country invented golf? Many countries did. If there were sticks and objects that could be hurtled along, then there was golf. No one knows for certain who started golf. But everybody knows who plays it now everyone does.
The origin of the name golf is believed to be the Dutch word of ‘colf,’ which means ‘club.’ In the medieval ages, golf was also known as spel metten colve, which literally meant ‘game with clubs.’
Nearly every area around the world has some claim to the origination of golf. Scotland, of course, has its claim. But so do China, Rome, England, France, Holland, Belgium, even Laos. Every country has a game consisting of sticks and balls, and every country is correct in its assumption that it invented the game. But there is no one country where golf actually began.
Still, Scotland is widely considered to be birthplace of golf. And it began haphazardly, a way of hitting a pebble or other roundish object into a hole by means of a stick or club.
Edinburgh, Scotland, claimed the first golfing society. The Gentlemen Golfers later known as the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers and today in...
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