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David_Tepper

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"This Buried Lie Could Change Golf History"
« on: April 01, 2012, 12:03:10 AM »
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Sven Nilsen

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Re: "This Buried Lie Could Change Golf History"
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2012, 12:10:25 AM »
As I'm a direct descendant of Eric the Red, I hereby proclaim that the only real golf is played using a longboat.
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Bob_Huntley

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Re: "This Buried Lie Could Change Golf History"
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2012, 12:48:46 AM »
Goodness gracious, Melvyn  is now under the care of Dr, Katz. send him your best wishes.

Bob
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Dan King

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Re: "This Buried Lie Could Change Golf History"
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2012, 02:25:17 AM »
The proof sounds sketchy. Where they found a club head they also found a hole? Why do they think the club was used to hit something into the hole? I'd sure like to know more about this than what is in the article.

Cheers,
Dan King
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Golf is an exercise which is much used by the Gentlemen of Scotland. A large common in which there are several little holes is chosen for the purpose. It is played with little leather balls stuffed with feathers; and sticks made somewhat in the form of a handy-wicket. He who puts a ball into a given number of holes, with the fewest strokes, gets the game.
  --Benjamin Rush, 1771
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Melvyn Morrow

Re: "This Buried Lie Could Change Golf History"
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2012, 03:13:47 AM »
I expect that the next thing they will find at the bottom of the Hole will be the remains of an old iron or perhaps bronze drain pipe proving it is indeed golf.

On a serious note it may prove that a golf Hole was older than previously known, we will just have to wait. Wonder if the Morris family came originally from this area?

Melvyn

PS have they found the remains of a cart nearby?
« Last Edit: April 01, 2012, 03:39:34 AM by Melvyn Hunter Morrow »
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Adam Clayman

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Re: "This Buried Lie Could Change Golf History"
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2012, 07:06:22 AM »
"Bring out your dead"

Dan, Good pick up on the hole. Wasn't early golf played to a spot, not a hole, and with wooden clubs?
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David_Tepper

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Re: "This Buried Lie Could Change Golf History"
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2012, 09:54:16 AM »
Swedish TV Story, 'Is Sweden the real "Home of Golf?"'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSOFDtSTB1s&feature=youtu.be
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Carl Johnson

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Re: "This Buried Lie Could Change Golf History"
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2012, 11:48:08 AM »
Well, good news I suppose.  My grandparents came from Sweden.  Unfortunately, they were from peasant stock, so although I may have inherited other Swedish genes, I most certainly did not inherit the Swedish golf gene.
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Ulrich Mayring

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Re: "This Buried Lie Could Change Golf History"
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2012, 07:07:23 PM »
Duh? All earlier non-Scottish forms of golf had no holes?



Ulrich
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