We have some very good golf courses on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

The Scots, Dutch, French, and Belguim all claim to have invented golf, and we do know that the game has been around for 500 years.

One story about how the game first started is that a shepherd knocked a stone into a rabbit hole with his crook, and was challenged to repeat it.

Whatever, the first Club was formed at Edinburg in 1744, and rules were drawn up for honourable competition.

For a while the game stayed in Scotland, but eventually interest formed in England, then later Ireland, and then spread through the British Empire to the US and other far corners of the World.

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Initially in the US golf failed to gain much recognition, and Canada embraced the game. It wasn’t until 1890 that golf actually started to become popular in the US. Once it did start in though, it really took off. The first incorporated club in the US was on Long Island, where the first members clubhouse was also built.

The first Japanese Course was built in 1903, and by 1914 several more courses had been built and Japan joined the golfing world.

On the what we now call the Sunshine Coast, the first courses appeared in the 1930’s, with the Caloundra Golf Club appearing to be one of the first in 1933.

Today there are many golf courses on the Coast, almost every resort has a golf course, and there are several golf Clubs.

The pity is though, that the Golf Courses are not well patronised nowdays. Even on a weeekend, unless there is a tournament, very few people use the Courses.

It's an unfortunate fact of life that many people join the golf clubs more for the other benefits, such as the pokies, than for the golf!

However, on some Sunshine Coast Golf Courses, in late afternoon it is encouraging to see school students having a round or two after school.

If you like golf, and you are not golfing as much as you would like too, why not get out today and have a swing or two? It will do both your heart and your spirit the world of good, especially if you leave the buggy behind!

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