Golf is known to have started sometime in the 14th century in Britain. The only people who played where kings and queens. 1729, inventor William Burnet made ten golf clubs, one iron, and seven dozen balls. A golfer played with a group of clubs, mostly woods, and perhaps an iron or two. The shape and style of clubs has changed very little from earliest times until the mid-nineteenth century. (Early Golf Clubs and Balls, 2)

Specialist joiners who also made other sporting equipment made the original woods, or clubs used for long distances in the present game. (Early Golf, 4) As stated from the document "Early Golf Clubs and Balls" by Robert Gowland, one historian has calculated that wooden clubs lasted only about twelve rounds of golf. Wooden clubs required two properties: a head sufficiently hard to withstand successive hits on the ball and a spring or whippy shaft. (5) As one can tell, golf clubs did not l

Written by Robert Gowland in "Earliest Golf Clubs and Balls", the earliest golf balls were made of solid boxwood, but feather-stuffed balls of rawhide superseded these. In 1850 a single ball cost between 2s. and 4s. sterling, the equivalent of between 150 and 400 dollars today. A serious match required the golfer's caddy to carry about half a dozen balls, their cost alone being sufficient explanation for why golf was a game for royalty. (13) The balls where filled with feathers, usually chicken or goose. The gap was stitched and hammered to make it as spherical as possible. The hide shrank, becoming very hard, while the feathers expanded trying to fluff. A good drive went about 160 to 180 yards, about half of a good drive today. A miss hit on a stitched seam might result in a cloud of feathers. ("Technology Takes Over" 24)

ast long. They where very expensive, thus royalty were the only people who took part in golf.

Irons were regarded as trouble clubs. They where used playing out of the rough or off sand, where graceful long-necked woods would simply have broken if used. Irons cost several times more than woods, but lasted much longer. The difference between woods and irons was the head of irons where hammered out of iron, not wood. The face had a curved, dished

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