Show The Game of Golf Like most games the game of golf solf has undoubtedly evolved from some older pastime says the Literary Literary Literary Lit Lit- Digest The Scottish game may have evolved from the older game of or from a Dutch from the old Roman Homan Roman Ro Ro- game or perhaps man game of paganica played with witha a crooked stick and a leather ball stuffed with feathers We Ve know only that by 1457 golf had become so popular in Scotland as to interfere of archery archery arch arch- with the more serious sport ery cry so much so that in the following following following follow follow- ing year the parliament passed an act forbidding the pastime The game was very slow in reaching the United States the first regularly regular regular- ly formed club being the St. St Andrews Andrews Andrews An An- drews Golf club of New York organized organized organized or or- in m 1888 |