History of golf
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The origins of golf are unclear and much debated. However, it is generally accepted that modern golf developed in Scotland from the Middle Ages onwards. The game did not find international popularity until the late 19th century, when it spread into the rest of the United Kingdom and then to the British Empire and the United States.
This scene in the margins of a late 13th-century manuscript depicts a game with clubs and a ball, possibly the game of kolf referred to by Jacob van Maerlant. It is considered to be the earliest known depiction of a golf-like game. (Bruges Public Library, Ms. 251 f. 149r)
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
Pub sign on the Golf Tavern on Bruntsfield Links, 2011
USGA Museum
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The United States Golf Association Museum and Arnold Palmer Center for Golf History is home to a collection of golf artifacts and memorabilia. It is located adjacent to the United States Golf Association’s headquarters in Liberty Corner, Bernards Township Somerset County, New Jersey.
USGA Museum in 2019
The USGA Museum building, built in 1919 by John Russell Pope
The Hall of Champions rotunda inside the USGA Museum
A portion of the difficult Pynes Putting Course at the USGA Museum