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The way i had always heard it was that Golf was a mens game in Scotland and it was originally an acronym G.O.L.F which stood for gentlemen only, ladies forbidden. but that is completely false really, the word "golf" derives from older languages and dialects. In this case, the languages in question are medieval Dutch and old Scots.The medieval Dutch word "kolf" or "kolve" meant "club." It is believed that word passed to the Scots, whose old Scots dialect transformed the word into "golve," "gowl" or "gouf." By the 16th Century, the word "golf" had emerged
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