The Origins of the Golf Course
Historians tell us that golf began on the sandy wastelands along the Scottish Coasts. When this information is conveyed to us, it often comes with photos of the Old Course in St Andrews on the east coast or Prestwick on the west. But in these photos the turf on the fairways is always short and manicured, greens are pure and smooth and bunkers are defined. While golf may have been played for hundreds of years at these long established locations and others, how the first courses may have appeared to the early pilgrims is now hidden from us. It intrigues me to visualise from where the first fairways and greens may have come, how the first courses looked and how the modern course has developed since.
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