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... played by striking a small ball with various clubs from a series of teeing grounds into a like series of holes on a course . The player who holes his ball in the fewest strokes is the winner . The game developed originally in Scotland ...
... played by striking a small ball with various clubs from a series of teeing grounds into a like series of holes on a course . The player who holes his ball in the fewest strokes is the winner . The game developed originally in Scotland ...
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... played their golf somewhere in the vicinity , it is doubtful whether any organized societies then existed , and re- search has set its date nearly two centuries later . In the Chronicles of Blackheath Golfers , W.E. Hughes , editor of ...
... played their golf somewhere in the vicinity , it is doubtful whether any organized societies then existed , and re- search has set its date nearly two centuries later . In the Chronicles of Blackheath Golfers , W.E. Hughes , editor of ...
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... played twice in a stipulated round . The clubs are designed for the various positions in which the ball may come to rest and for the various distances to the hole . The objective is to hole the ball in the fewest strokes . When the game ...
... played twice in a stipulated round . The clubs are designed for the various positions in which the ball may come to rest and for the various distances to the hole . The objective is to hole the ball in the fewest strokes . When the game ...
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