Golf
L Michael Gouveia, DMD • May 11, 2020
Golf - the Early Days
It is thought that the first organized golf game was played in America in 1743 in Charleston, SC. Records show that 473 golf balls and ninety-six golf “sticks” arrived there then from Scotland. At that time there was no set number of holes for a round of golf. The game was played on pasture land with no actual tees or greens and crudely dug unmarked holes provided the target. An early version of today’s caddies called “finders” stood by the hole and yelled “fore” as shots


