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The word golf derives from the Dutch word kolf or kolve, meaning club.
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The name "golf" is a derivative of the Dutch word "kolf" however, so as for who really invented the game, we say who really cares!
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Seventeenth-century paintings from the Netherlands depict an already-old game called "kolf," played on ice, which some historians consider a predecessor to Scottish golf.
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Dutch historian Steven van Hengel says he traces documents mentioning a Dutch game of "kolf" (meaning club) and "spel metten colve," literally "game with clubs," back to 1297.
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The word likely originated from the Medieval Dutch word "kolf" or "kolve" which meant
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The word likely originated from the Medieval Dutch word "kolf" or "kolve" which meant
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Some scholars suggest that the Dutch game of kolf, played with a stick and ball on frozen canals in the winter, was taken by Dutch sailors to the east coast of Scotland, where it eventually became the game we know today.
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The bail was driven by a 'Mahen kolf,' a long stick with an iron head and a leather grip, and it had to touch both poles and roll through the porch.
Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough
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More polite forms of entertainment, like ice-skating and "kolf" a cross between golf and hockey, are the focus of winter landscapes by Gerrit Battem and Herman Saftleven.
NYT > Home Page By KAREN ROSENBERG 2012
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(I admit that much code has been ported from kolf-ng, so you cannot really conclude that I can write 750 LOC a day.)
Planet KDE 2010
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