From Past to Present

Golf is one the oldest sports out there and has evolved quite drastically. Way back in the day only the rich and noble people were able to golf and afford it. The wealthy were the ones that pretty much created the sport to what it is today. You can still see a glimpse of that today with country clubs and only the people that can afford it play. So a good amount of upper class wealthy people do play the game. You see in movies and stuff how business man have work meeting and go out golfing on a really nice course just because they can. I'm sure that's how it actually is in real life or at least close to it.
Now lets go way way back when it all came together. They say that glimpse's of a form of golf was created back in the Egyptian days. But Professor Guerrero here, (yes I did just use myself in third person) is skipping ahead to the we lads in Scotland. During the 15th century they came up with the general rules and play of the sport. Shortly after that it was banned because it was supposedly getting in the way of their precious archery practice. Apparently they needed that to defend the country, but come on that's really lame and they soon realized that a few years later. The ban was raised and even the king of Scotland became interested in the game. A few post's back I talked about St Andrew's and the Old Course. Well this is when the course was created and the legacy began. Around 200 years later golf came around to the U.S. and that's when the first set of golf clubs were used in the country. Then after that it exploded and kept on evolving to what it is today. Back when it started they used beech wood and other hard woods to create the club. Wood was used for the longest time until the early 1900's it slowly got replaced and in 1931 the first tournament was won using steel shafted clubs. Then that sparked the next era for golf. Once WWII was over they began to experiment more and more with different metals. Slowly they went from steel, to graphite because it was lighter and you could have a faster swing. Then from graphite shafts came titanium club heads that paired with it. together those two make up a lot of golf clubs today.
Well there you go, a small history on how golf evolved from then to now.