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The origins of golf, like most sports, are not clear and many people have tried to attribute their invention.

However there are several sports activities for different sites and different times of the globe can be considered a prelude to what we know today as golf. Perhaps the oldest is the pagan, practiced by the Romans. The instruments used were a bent stick and a ball of feathers, the run of play was similar to the current course.

Other opinions point to the Netherlands by the etymology: “golf” meaning ball or ball in Dutch, the game was called “Kolver” could come here and “golf”.
But one way or another the only tangible fact is that today’s golf was invented in Scotland to the fourteenth century and hence was exported to the rest of the world.
At first he had to officially prohibited because the king feared that playing golf hiciese decrease archery necessary militarily. Anyway, the people paid no attention and continued playing golf, which ended repealed.

Mary Stuart was the first who took the course outside of Scotland, particularly to France. There was some helpers in the field, whom he called “cadets” (students). This raises the current name of the “caddies”. Around this time also comes to golf England and just becomes a game exclusive, unlike the first, when the common people and nobles played interchangeably. From the English influence is considered golf a sport select, elite and continue to be considered so this country is the leading sport in the United States , one of the cradles of golf today.

The sport is progressing at the same time as science advances and with it the materials of clubs and balls or the state of the fields. Players begin to associate on the eighteenth century. The first known association is the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers in Scotland.
In Spain, the first golf club was founded in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1891 .

Since the late nineteenth century until today has increased the number of fields throughout the world as well as practitioners of the sport. It could even speak of golf fever, a fashion unprecedented has gathered around himself a number of resorts, designed to turn around hotels, housing developments, restaurants …

Now there are built around golf courses, luxury hotels, but hotels of four and five star rising in the shadow of vast fields and may even have streets in some golf at the same time make a small garden of a residential villas.