Golfer

Golf is a sport where playing outdoors and of sending a ball into a hole using clubs.

The goal is to perform, on a course set, the least shots possible. Precision, endurance, technique, mental strength are essential qualities for this sport. Codified in Scotland in 1754 by the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, the sport has different origins whose game mail.

was imported and the Netherlands where it was practiced under the name "colf" from the thirteenth century. There are, however, thanks to recent research, a similar game was played in China in the eleventh century.

golf takes its rise in the second half of the nineteenth century with the arrival of professional and private clubs in Scotland and England, which was set up in 1860 the first British Open played by professionals, then in the early twentieth century. This development continues during the First World War sees redefine the world rankings, reaching the Americans to end the hegemony of the British. After World War II, golf sees the arrival of other nations such as South Africa, Germany, Spain, South Korea, Japan and Australia and is going global at the end of twentieth century.There

in 2003 over 60 million practitioners worldwide.

sport is also practiced in women, but its recognition is less. Even today, unlike tennis, women's golf is suffering from a very unequal treatment in terms of media and finance.

October 9, 2009, golf is once again an Olympic sport that will appear in the program of Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.