golf history

When one thinks of Scotland, it might be easy to get lost in the romance of its ancient lands, the mysterious moors that witnessed many a battle or were the idyllic settings for gothic novelists and fabled legends alike. But it is due to Scotland’s unique climate, loamy vegetation and gracefully rolling foothills that lent it to be the birthplace of golf. Historians surmised that perhaps ‘gowf’ was invented by shepherds as a way to while the day by plunking stones from their staff into the many rabbit holes that punctured the grassy lands, and over the course of time this game soon gave way to … [Read more...] about Historic Golf Courses of Scotland