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The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. The modern game of golf is generally considered to be a Scottish invention.A spokesman for The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, one of the oldest Scottish golf organisations, said "Stick and ball games have been around for many centuries, but golf as we know it today, played over 18 holes, clearly originated in Scotland."
Golf: did not originate as an acronym of "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden". [31] The word's true origin is unknown, but it existed in the Middle Scots period. [32] [33] News: The word news has been claimed to be an acronym of the four cardinal directions (north, east, west, and south). However, old spellings of the word varied widely (e.g ...
The name golf is not an acronym for "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden". [268] [269] It may have come from the Dutch word kolf or kolve, meaning "club", [269] or from the Scottish word goulf or gowf meaning "to strike or cuff". [268] Baseball was not invented by Abner Doubleday, nor did it originate in Cooperstown, New York.
With some of these specious expansions, the "belief" that the etymology is acronymic has clearly been tongue-in-cheek among many citers, as with "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden" for "golf", although many other (more credulous) people have uncritically taken it for fact.
"The club has women on its membership waiting list, but will not allow them to circumvent the regular membership process to appease those outside the club." As has been documented in Golf Digest, Curt Samson's book The Masters and other places, ANGC has no waiting list. membseship is by invitation only. this should be deleted.
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