HISTORY AND THE WORLD OF GOLF The game of golf attracts massive galleries of spectators, mesmerized by a pastime in which a player hits a tiny ball across great distances, sometimes over 500 yards, into a little hole. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries people played a number of different club and ball games. By the fifteenth century golf was been played in many parts of Europe and had become so popular in Scotland that in 1457 King James II was forced to ban his archers from playing the game that was keeping them from performing their proper duties. Such prohibitions, however, failed to curb the growing popularity of the game, which teed off officially in 1860 when the thirst Open Championship was held at the tiny fishing village of Prestwick on the West Coast of Scotland. From then on the game didn't look back. J H Taylor, James Braid and Harry Vardon, playing on the turn of the century, put golf firmly on the British map. In 1916 the US PGA was formed, and Walter Hagen, Bobb...
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