Golf's beginnings have gone astray in history, but in its current form it is in general agreed to have been played in Scotland in the late 1400s. Many has been stated about whimsical links to a game played on ice-covered ponds in Holland before, but the correlation with Golf is too unsubstantiated to be convincing.
It turned out to be quite infamous then, and was even debarred for a while by the King of Scotland, as golfers had turned out to be so fanatical with the game that they abandoned their archery training.
In the following 500 years, the game has forwarded from one played with simple hand made clubs and leather balls blown up with feathers to the game we know today, based on clubs designed by computer using advanced materials such as titanium and zirconia. The largest modifications to the game have been in systematization of the rules and playing field, and the technology used in the clubs and the balls.
History of the shaft
In the early times of golf, players used......
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