History of Golf Scottish Perspective. The following. gives an overview of the historical development of the game of golf over. PRE. 1. 40. 0 THE ORIGINS OF THE GAME Throughout. Pangea for example, as described by Roman scribes, would appear. Celtic games of Shinty. Hurling. In one form. Europe in the Middle Ages. Prize Golf Game' title='Prize Golf Game' />Historic Carlton Oaks Golf Course of San Diego is the regions only Dyedesigned golf course. Play golf at Dubs Dread Golf Club located in Kansas City, KS. Prize Golf Game' title='Prize Golf Game' />24 September 2017. Devoted to the world of golf, mainly the PGA Tour. Links to European Tour and LPGA Tour, as well as to personal opinion pages. The game persisted over the centuries. In short, the game consisted. Games often extended from village to village. That this. game was ousted from the towns and onto the commons land beyond is one. Whatever the exact. Netherlands and goff as it was referred to in England, was a. Kings and Commoners alike. Its kinship to the Great. Game however, remains entirely questionable. So widespread. was the game of Gowf, as it was known in Scotland, that an Act of Parliament. Sundays and thus preserve. Archery. The citizens of Aberdeen, St. Andrews and Leith. Scotlands East Coast were the principal gowfing miscreants and it. On this very terrain, a game that started with a cleek and a ball took. The question. of how it all began may be of pressing concern to some but to the Scot. Scotland. Here, the game has been nurtured for over five hundred years. THE ROBERTSONS OF ST ANDREWS This was. It was in this time. The great club makers and ball makers. Top players. began to regularly gather for meetings when medal and match play rounds. Allan Robertson, of the famous ball making family. St Andrews, is widely credited as being the first golf professional. But before Allan, his Grandfather Peter was described as a professional. One epic contest in 1. Allan Robertson and Willie Dunn, two of the best players of. The challenge was held over 2. Robertson who triumphed two rounds up with one to. The Robertson. dynasty in itself reflects the emergence of the great game. The family. can be traced back to one Thomas Buddo, a ball maker in St Andrews in. His daughter married a Robertson and from this pair was bred the. Allan himself and along the line produced generations. At least four separate Robertson families employing over. St Andrews during the mid 1. Century. Allan by the way, who died in 1. Old Course in 1. 85. THE MORRIS AND PARK ERA If golf. Robertson family on the links of St Andrews. Three highly. significant events occurred in St Andrews that were to turn the game from. The first of these events was the discovery. James Patterson. in 1. More importantly, the durability of this new ball in turn encouraged. Then in 1. 85. 2. St Andrews and with it the progenitors of the millions. Now the links was played by all and. The R A erected its now famous clubhouse in consequence. University. which was gradually assuming a stature comparable with Oxford and Cambridge. If the gutty transformed the game, the railway certainly transformed. St Andrews. The. third event of this period, which comes in two parts, is surely one of. Every individual. Easybcd 2.2 Full'>Easybcd 2.2 Full. April 2. 0th. 1. 85. Young Tom Morris. Similarly, every green keeper. July for it was on that day in 1. Old Tom Morris left for. Prestwick to create the first purpose built golf course on the links of. Monkton parish. It was in. Open Championship was held at Prestwick and was contested. The first winner was Willie Park for which. Morocco leather belt with silver clasps as the first. The Open continued to be held at Prestwick for 1. Morriss dominated the early events. Old Tom had won the event four times. Young Tom subsequently completed a quartet of wins, after. Belt. Young Tom. Morris was raised on the links of Prestwick Golf Club and it was there. Stewart in St Andrews. Irons that were previously. Young Tom. Morris also knew his worth and he demanded and obtained a good living. In this sense he was the first. There may well have been greater players. Young Tom but if there has been, few have left a greater legacy. The Morriss. accrued an incredible record, with Old Tom winning the Open in 1. Young Tom won in 1. Across the. Firth of Forth in Musselburgh another family came close to matching them. Willie Park Sr. and Jr. Open six times between them. Willie. Sr. won the first Open in 1. His. brother Mungo Park won in 1. Willie Jr. won in 8. Old. Tom and Willie Sr. Open 1. 86. 5 prior to the emergence. Young Tom. Both were much loved figures and were responsible for the. THE GREAT TRIUMVIRATE This. John Henry Taylor, Harry Vardon and James Braid. Known as the great triumvirate. Open Championships between them and have left an. Harry Vardon. hailed from the Channel Island of Jersey and Henry Taylor from Devon in. England. The emergence of Vardon and Taylor before the end of the 1. Both. had already established themselves as Open Champions before they were. James Braid. The three between them collected 1. Open titles. and 1. Scots players from the records of the game during that particular. John Henry. Taylor won the first of his five Open titles in 1. St Georges in. England, now Royal St Georges, while Harry Vardon pipped Taylor in a. James Braid. won his first of five Open Championships in 1. Vardon and Taylor. Though also winning the French Open. Vardon and Taylor, Braid never made the transatlantic crossing. USA. While Vardon. US Open of 1. 90. America where he played in approximately. Braids decision to remain at home. Braid also established. Gleneagles and Nairn to name but two. What started. as a trickle of Scots golfers to the US, became commonplace by the turn. Scots links was. able to find a lucrative niche as a professional in the US. The early. US Open Champions were all Scots born players who, as teachers and mentors. One notable. such player was Willie Anderson from North Berwick in Scotland, who won. US Open four times including a present day record of three in a row. BETWEEN THE GREAT WARS The First. World War decimated Scottish golf. Every village war memorial attests. France and few clubs are without a memorial. Flanders. Some great players survived but the consequence of terror gutted their. Those that came through unscathed were few in number, determined. America. golfs promised land. There was. one notable exception in the mercurial George Duncan. Born near Aberdeen. George served his time as a carpenter before rejecting his trade and the. Aberdeen FC to become the professional. Stonehaven, before moving to the lucrative South and acclaim. He won. the first post war Open at Deal in 1. Sandy Herd at the age of. Duncan also played in the Ryder Cups of 2. Scottish golfers were sorely tried by the. Americans that returned to assault the Championships. War. These players transformed the game, bringing a flair and. Though life. in America did not suit all tastes, with the Dunnes and Willie Park Jr. Alistair Mackenzie and Donald Ross from Dornoch were. America as course architects. The. Smiths from Carnoustie, Ben Sayers from North Berwick, Tommy Armour from. Edinburgh, the Simpsons from Elie and many others from St Andrews all. States and left Scotland bereft of its. Jock Hutchison. was the last St Andrews born player to win the Open, while Paul Lawrie. Scot when he won at Carnoustie in 1. After Jocks. win, the Open was dominated by the American, Walter Hagen who won the. Open titles in 1. St Georges and followed up with. Together with his compatriots Jim Barnes. Gene Sarazen 1. 93. Bobby Jones who won in. Radiation Oncology Books. Open Championship domination. US players. The. year 1. Gene Sarazen burst onto the scene in dramatic. US Open and US PGA Championship, retaining the. Walter Hagen. Hagen bounced. PGA Championships. Bobby Jones. winning the first of his four US Open titles and Jones followed this with. Open at Royal Lytham in 1. St Andrews. in 1.