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Top Questions
How much does a golf ball weigh?
Where did golf originate?
What is the diameter of a golf hole?
What is the average distance of an 18-hole golf course?
Is golf an Olympic event?
golf, a cross-country game in which a player strikes a small ball with various clubs from a series of starting points (teeing grounds) into a series of holes on a course. The player who holes his ball in the fewest strokes wins. The origins of the game are difficult to ascertain, although evidence now suggests that early forms of golf were played in the Netherlands first and then in Scotland. From a somewhat obscure antiquity, the game attained worldwide popularity, especially in the 20th century. Nothing is known about the early game’s favourite venues on the European continent, but in ...(100 of 10265 words)