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Golf 's Most Different Sports

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Golf, including the history of it, the equipment used, the rules in place, the tournaments held, and the etiquette during gameplay, is unique as a sport itself. To note, this isn’t about the code word for the letter g, but it is the actual sport. Golf is a game of precession and focus; your mental state influences the game very much. It is a game basically where you use a club to whack the ball into the hole. Golf is one of the most different sports out there.
Golf’s History Where is golf’s birthplace? Golf’s birthplace is on the eastern coast of Scotland in the Kingdom of Fife during the 15th century, approximately 1457. Later on, the king of Scotland, King James II, prohibited golf because it distracted people from military training; they had to prepare to defend themselves from an English invasion. In the 1500s the Treaty of Glasgow allowed golf to be played and in two years, King James IV of Scotland (James I of England) started to play, making the game popular. Queen Mary I of Scotland showed the game to the French. Her helpers are the French Military. In 1744, the first club, The Gentlemen Golfers of Leith, later renamed the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers in 1768, had an annual competition with a silver golf club as the prize. Duncan Forbes rules were:
You must tee your ball within one club 's length of the hole.
Your tee must be on the ground.
You are not to change the ball which you strike off the tee

You are not to remove stones, bones or any break
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