The origins of golf

[Stub]

I have read many accounts of the earliest golf in Scotland (or Holland?) but my daughter has pointed out that the beginnings of golf have been documented by an Oxford Professor thus:

"He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfimbul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf invented at the same moment."

Assuming the Battle of the Green Fields did not take place on Scottish soil it seems their claims to being the founders of golf are false, and who am I to argue with an Oxford Professor:mmm:.

 

[JPH]

Goblins are not real

 

[Stub]

You wouldn't say that you played at my club!!

 

[JPH]

Chortle

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I think that you'll find that the Battle of Green Fields was fought around 1888 in the East End of Glasgow - in an area now known to some as Paradise. The two great tribes of Goblinweegieland - the Blue Weegies and the Green Weegies.

In commemortion of the battle a reenactment has been held annually ever since - and indeed it became such fun that from late in the previous century it was held biannually. And oft this reenactment was fought on the sacred slopes of the no mans land of Mount Florida. Many clubs were swung and balls and heids battered about the place - that was until only recently when the reenactment was cancelled due to the Blue Weegie tribe finding themselves unable muster to get to Paradise - with the great leader of that tribe - The MacAlly Beag - and his followers being banished to distant parts for many years for crimes against the Higher Power; now the remnants of that once great tribe fight minor skirmishes with the local upstarts they encounter all the time - each trying their best to bring to it's knees that once might tribe. Meanwhile the Green Weegie tribe continue to plough their trade on the green fields of Paradise - and their leader - the feared LennNeil the Red gathering his brows like gathering storm, nursing his wrath to keep it warm until he can face up to The MacAlly Beag for a mighty match of strokes. And so the play of strokes - the stroke play contest of clubs and balls continues.

 

[walshawwhippet]

I thought Hobbit would have replied by now.

 

[JPH]

I think that you'll find that the Battle of Green Fields was fought around 1888 in the East End of Glasgow - in an area now known to some as Paradise. The two great tribes of Goblinweegieland - the Blue Weegies and the Green Weegies.

In commemortion of the battle a reenactment has been held annually ever since - and indeed it became such fun that from late in the previous century it was held biannually. And oft this reenactment was fought on the sacred slopes of the no mans land of Mount Florida. Many clubs were swung and balls and heids battered about the place - that was until only recently when the reenactment was cancelled due to the Blue Weegie tribe finding themselves unable muster to get to Paradise - with the great leader of that tribe - The MacAlly Beag - and his followers being banished to distant parts for many years for crimes against the Higher Power; now the remnants of that once great tribe fight minor skirmishes with the local upstarts they encounter all the time - each trying their best to bring to it's knees that once might tribe. Meanwhile the Green Weegie tribe continue to plough their trade on the green fields of Paradise - and their leader - the feared LennNeil the Red gathering his brows like gathering storm, nursing his wrath to keep it warm until he can face up to The MacAlly Beag for a mighty match of strokes. And so the play of strokes - the stroke play contest of clubs and balls continues.

:clap:

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Hogan......Have you been on the Kummel?

Funny though

 

[Imurg]

Goblins are not real

Just because you've never seen one............

 

[6inchcup]

i used to have a goblin teas made !!!! she made awfull tea.

 

[Liverbirdie]

I think that you'll find that the Battle of Green Fields was fought around 1888 in the East End of Glasgow - in an area now known to some as Paradise. The two great tribes of Goblinweegieland - the Blue Weegies and the Green Weegies.

In commemortion of the battle a reenactment has been held annually ever since - and indeed it became such fun that from late in the previous century it was held biannually. And oft this reenactment was fought on the sacred slopes of the no mans land of Mount Florida. Many clubs were swung and balls and heids battered about the place - that was until only recently when the reenactment was cancelled due to the Blue Weegie tribe finding themselves unable muster to get to Paradise - with the great leader of that tribe - The MacAlly Beag - and his followers being banished to distant parts for many years for crimes against the Higher Power; now the remnants of that once great tribe fight minor skirmishes with the local upstarts they encounter all the time - each trying their best to bring to it's knees that once might tribe. Meanwhile the Green Weegie tribe continue to plough their trade on the green fields of Paradise - and their leader - the feared LennNeil the Red gathering his brows like gathering storm, nursing his wrath to keep it warm until he can face up to The MacAlly Beag for a mighty match of strokes. And so the play of strokes - the stroke play contest of clubs and balls continues.

Is this on the next episode of Game of thrones?

 

[Colin L]

now the remnants of that once great tribe fight minor skirmishes with the local upstarts they encounter all the time - each trying their best to bring to it's knees that once mighty tribe.....

.... and doing it rather well judging by the blooded noses of yesterday wrought upon them by the thistly ones from Teuchterland.

 

[JPH]

Just because you've never seen one............

There were two at my door last night I thought , turns out they were gremlins

 

[1GG_Grumps]

Thought this thread was going to link to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnFbCCgTo4