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'''Golf''' is a sport in which individual players or teams hit a golf ball into a hole using various clubs, and also is one of the few [[ball games]] that does not use a fixed standard playing area. It is defined in the ''Rules of Golf'' as ''"playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."''
[[Image:Pga west.jpg|thumb|right|200px|PGA West, La Quinta, California]]
It is said that the first ever game of golf may have been played at the Bruntsfield Links in 1456, claimed by the history of the ''Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society'', now The Royal Burgess Golfing Society.
Golf, in essentially the form we know today, has been played on [[Scotland]]'s Musselburgh Links since at least 1672, while variations of the game had been played throughout the [[British Isles]] and the [[Low Countries]] of northern [[Europe]] for several centuries before that.
[[Image:Pga west.jpg|thumb|right|200px|PGA West, La Quinta, California]]
It is said that the first ever game of golf may have been played at the Bruntsfield Links in 1456, claimed by the history of the ''Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society'', now The Royal Burgess Golfing Society.
Golf, in essentially the form we know today, has been played on [[Scotland]]'s Musselburgh Links since at least 1672, while variations of the game had been played throughout the [[British Isles]] and the [[Low Countries]] of northern [[Europe]] for several centuries before that.