![]() ![]() Lachlann was a man with an entrepreneurial spirit, and he invited others to play, if only to prevent having to spend his working life looking at sheep. This became known as a Pa Round, from which we get the modern word par. Due to his advanced years, he was less able to hit the ball, called at that time a "ball o' muck", so Lachlann, who was a very kind man, devised a system whereby his father's abilities would quantify what would be expected of a player. They conversed, in Gaelic, for some considerable time, whereupon Faither McReekie also tried this new pastime. In time, he became very proficient, and he was practicing one day when his father saw what he was doing. In time he came to the conclusion that it would cause less damage if the cup were let in to the ground, obviously minus handle, and the hole as we know it was born. Once McReekie realised that he could unfailingly get the dung over the wall, which he called by an unprintable name, now known as the chip shot (his term was fairly similar), he attempted to land his missiles in an old cup he had borrowed from his mother's kitchen. This was out of sheer mind-numbing boredom, since shepherds rarely spend any time with each other, and are largely solitary beings. McReekie started the game by trying to hit dried sheeps' dung over a nearby dry-stone wall using, as legend has it, his crook. Andrew's, which has traditionally claimed to be the Home Of Golf, without any historical backing whatsoever. Golf was originally devised by one Lachlann McReekie, (1348-1417) who was indeed a shepherd and part-time bag-pipe mechanic of Kingsbarns, on the East coast of Scotland. ![]()
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