The word ‘golf’ is Dutch and means club. Some people suggest that the Dutch game of kolf which is played with a stick and ball on frozen canals in the wintertime, was brought by the Dutch sailors to the east coast of Scotland, where it was transferred on to the public linkslands and eventually became the game we know today.

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