Posted by:
elderolddog
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Date: September 25, 2022 01:14PM
Avid golfer that I am, even I wonder how here in North Disneyland, the municipality has put up signs IN THE STREETS telling us to conserve water (including a new message: "Only Water lawns and plants on Wednesdays in October!", but the two city-owned golf courses are still watering daily...
I figure less than 1% of the population use the two courses...
Just because I can, I'll relate that one of the possible origins of the game has it leaping from the minds of Scottish sheepherders, who, after a night of sheepish connubial bliss, would use their staffs to play a rudimentary 'hit the small bundle into a hole in as few strokes as possible' game.
They would simply use the land they were on, lay out a couple of holes and then 'golf' their way into legend.
Here's a look at a shepherd's staff:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/871280423/shepherd-staff-60-oak-staff-handmade-in?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_a-bath_and_beauty-personal_care-canes_and_walking&utm_custom1=_k_CjwKCAjw-L-ZBhB4EiwA76YzOZSB-z5DJl1mmMwLjYM8S9SDrqLSWvNA7vVPE3uzvzPTGVzQAqJgWBoCzPAQAvD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_12570711969_119070841826_507343034088_pla-354666321271_c__871280423_112363018&utm_custom2=12570711969&gclid=CjwKCAjw-L-ZBhB4EiwA76YzOZSB-z5DJl1mmMwLjYM8S9SDrqLSWvNA7vVPE3uzvzPTGVzQAqJgWBoCzPAQAvD_BwEMy point being that the "original" game did not require anything but a bit of imagination. There were no set courses...
How would that work today? It'd be easy, with the internet, so long as golf balls became soft and heavy.
Golfers and mormons: entitled sons of bitches...