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Golf,
outdoor game in which individual players
use specially designed clubs to propel
a small, hard ball over a field of play
known as a course or links. The object
of the game is to advance the ball around
the course using as few strokes as possible.
Some
historians believe that golf originated
in the Netherlands (The Dutch word kolf
means "club"), but the Romans had a game
played with a bent stick and a ball made
of feathers that may have been the original
source of the game. It has been fairly
well established, however, that the game
actually devised by the Scots in the 14th
and 15th century.
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