Golf: A sport fashion
The origins of golf, like most sports, are not clear and many people have tried to attribute their invention.Still there are several different sports sites and different times of the globe can be considered a prelude to what we know today as golf. Perhaps the older the paganica, practiced by the Romans. The instruments used were a bent stick and a ball of feathers, the logic of the game was similar to the current course.Other opinions point to the Netherlands for the etymology: “kolf” means ball or ball in Dutch, the game was called “Kolver” and hence could come “golf.”But one way or another the only tangible fact is that today’s golf was invented in Scotland around the fourteenth century and from there exported to the rest of the world.At first he had to officially prohibited because the king feared that the decrease hiciese golf archery necessary militarily. Anyway, the people paid no attention and continued playing golf, which eventually repealed.Mary Stuart was the first person who took the course outside Scotland, particularly to France. There was some helpers in the field, whom he called “cadets” (students). Hence the current name of the “caddies”. Around this time, the course also comes to England and finally transforms into a tight game, unlike the first, when the common people and nobles played interchangeably. From the English influence is considered golf a sport select, elite and is being considered so that this country takes the sport to America, one of the cradles of golf today.The sport is progressing, along with advancing science and materials with her clubs and balls or the state of the fields. Players begin to join the eighteenth century. The first known association is the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers in Scotland.In Spain the first golf club was founded in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1891.Since the late nineteenth century until today has increased the number of fields throughout the world as well as practitioners of the sport. It could even talk about golf fever, an unprecedented fashion has gathered around himself a number of resorts, designed to turn around hotels, housing developments, restaurants …Now there are golf courses built around luxury hotels, accessories but hotels of four and five stars rise in the shadow of vast fields and even will have streets of some golf courses that also makes the small garden a residential villas.