Show the game of golf like most games the game of golf olf has undoubtedly evolved from some older pastime says the literary digest the scottish game may have evolved from the older game of or from a dutch game or perhaps from the old roman game of paganica played with a crooked stick and a leather ball stuffed with feathers we know only that by 1457 golf had become so I 1 popular pular in scotland as to interfere with ith the more serious sport of archery so much so that in the following year the parliament passed an act forbidding the pastime the game was very slow in reaching the united states the first regularly formed club being the st andrews golf club of new york organized in 1888 1863 |