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To: ConorMacNessa

Someone told me that Golf is started as an acronym that originally meant Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.


9 posted on 11/14/2007 11:57:48 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

golf

1457, Scot. gouf, usually taken as an alteration of M.Du. colf, colve “stick, club, bat,” from P.Gmc. *kulth- (cf. O.N. kolfr “clapper of a bell,” Ger. Kolben “mace, club”). The game is from 14c., the word is first mentioned (along with fut-bol) in a 1457 Scot. statute on forbidden games.


12 posted on 11/14/2007 12:01:23 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3rd Bn. 5th Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: SandRat

Well you know what golf spelled backwards is, right?


13 posted on 11/14/2007 12:01:41 PM PST by subterfuge (HILLARY IS: She who must NOT be Dismayed)
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