Cernunnos
Journeyman Pro
This is one of those odd thoughts that come into our heads... (Well some of us anyhow) very occasionally & sometimes repeatedly.
Early man was advanced enough to knap flint to produce stone tools fasion antler bone into all sorts of shapes for all sorts of uses & some experts now think with the discovery of stone flint sythes, that stone age man also farmed as well as being hunter gatherers.
Early man fasioned bows, arrows, spears, discoverd fire & at one point even started producing series of sone monoliths even culminating in the Likes of Stone Henge Avebury & many advanced stone built dwellings in the Hebredies, to quote but a few examples.
Certain early human cultures also developed throwing sticks, capable of launching spears & rocks at increased velocity & at this point does start to sound a little bit like golf.
Imagine stone age man launching stones overhead with his throwing-launching stick & then suddenly decids he cant be bothered with picking up tyhe pebble to launch the pebble... So he takes an almighty swing with his stick from off a convinient mound & the pebble suddenly comes to rest in a little clearing where there just happens to be a small henge... The pebble takes a bounce & goes straight into a rabbit burrow & polaxes a rabbit... Stone age man takes a but of a walk down to the clearing where the henge & the rabbit hole is & with his spear finds the pebble & the polaxed rabbit & thinks "wow I've just made a meal in a hole in one "
So might go the discovery of Stoneage golf.
Imagine how different British History might Be, when instead of 10,000 welsh Archers Henry V might have had 10,000 Scottish golfers to defeat the French.
300 Spartan Golfers might have defended & won at Themopolye instead of being killed... The ultimate driving range me thinks.
So what would Stone age man have used as his clubs balls etc as he developed the game as a game...
Balls may have started as pebble, but maybe conkers would have been used in peacetime, which would have given a softer feel. By the 1400's or even as early as 1066 we may have had steel dimpled golf balls for fightling the French, or Normans... Think how different the outcome might have been at Hastings.
As for the clubs, what sort of woods would early man have had? What would the heads have been made of, how would they have fasioned the heads out of stone or antler, binding the two together with sinue...
And all thanks to stone age man killing a rabbit in its hole.
Early man was advanced enough to knap flint to produce stone tools fasion antler bone into all sorts of shapes for all sorts of uses & some experts now think with the discovery of stone flint sythes, that stone age man also farmed as well as being hunter gatherers.
Early man fasioned bows, arrows, spears, discoverd fire & at one point even started producing series of sone monoliths even culminating in the Likes of Stone Henge Avebury & many advanced stone built dwellings in the Hebredies, to quote but a few examples.
Certain early human cultures also developed throwing sticks, capable of launching spears & rocks at increased velocity & at this point does start to sound a little bit like golf.
Imagine stone age man launching stones overhead with his throwing-launching stick & then suddenly decids he cant be bothered with picking up tyhe pebble to launch the pebble... So he takes an almighty swing with his stick from off a convinient mound & the pebble suddenly comes to rest in a little clearing where there just happens to be a small henge... The pebble takes a bounce & goes straight into a rabbit burrow & polaxes a rabbit... Stone age man takes a but of a walk down to the clearing where the henge & the rabbit hole is & with his spear finds the pebble & the polaxed rabbit & thinks "wow I've just made a meal in a hole in one "
So might go the discovery of Stoneage golf.
Imagine how different British History might Be, when instead of 10,000 welsh Archers Henry V might have had 10,000 Scottish golfers to defeat the French.
300 Spartan Golfers might have defended & won at Themopolye instead of being killed... The ultimate driving range me thinks.
So what would Stone age man have used as his clubs balls etc as he developed the game as a game...
Balls may have started as pebble, but maybe conkers would have been used in peacetime, which would have given a softer feel. By the 1400's or even as early as 1066 we may have had steel dimpled golf balls for fightling the French, or Normans... Think how different the outcome might have been at Hastings.
As for the clubs, what sort of woods would early man have had? What would the heads have been made of, how would they have fasioned the heads out of stone or antler, binding the two together with sinue...
And all thanks to stone age man killing a rabbit in its hole.
