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Bourn Golf Club

Bourn Golf Club
Bourn Golf Club

Bourn Golf Club

 
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Bourn Golf Club
Street: Toft Road , Bourn
City: CAMBRIDGE CB3 7TT
Country: England
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Holes: 18 holes
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Green Fee: weekdays £16 weekend £22
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Extra info
Their are many theories on how and were golf began, but only a few certainties. One theory goes back to roman times to a game played in the streets by roman boys with a leather ball stuffed with feathers. Another suggestion is that a game played in Holland on the ice and frozen canels called Het Kolven is where golf started. The games clubs were called kolb, or kolf. Many believe the game was brought across the North Sea by the Dutch traders to Scotland, were they evolved kolf into the early forms of golf.
One fact we do know is that the "birth" of golf happen on the northwest shores of Scotland, perhaps as early as the twelfth century. It slowly spread throughout Scotland until by 1456 King James II thought it was taking to much time away from the mens archery practice, and decree that the futeball and golfe (as it was spelled at the time)no longer be played. Opon the signing of the Treaty of Glasgow on February 11, 1502, were King James IV pleaded perpetual peace with England. This
 
 
 
 
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