Golf: China's ancient game? 2025-11-21 15:28:47

https://culturepedia.chinadaily.com.cn/#/articleDetailPage/1991770754947293184 The Scots may well have codified golf as we know it – including, after a few false starts, making it a game of 18 holes. But the jury's still out on who first came up with the idea of an open-air game that involves using a stick to hit a ball towards a target. The Romans played a game called paganica, in which a ball stuffed with feathers and wool was hit with a bent stick, while the Dutch played a stick-and-ball game called colf as early as the 13th century.