A NUMBER OF WIRES report a boffin saying that golf was invented by the Chinese.The Scotsman, for example, says that academic Ling Hongling said golf was p-layed as early as the 10th century of the Christian era, and arrived in Scotland by Mongolian travellers during the late middle ages.
We have some evidence that said boffin is correct. A few weeks back our Taiwanese sales supremo, JPS, from IT Mediagate sent us a couple of pictures he’d taken in a museum in Old Shanghai.
Here’s a picture of a bunch of ladies playing with clubs which look suspiciously like golf clubs and batting a little ball around in the direction of what looks like a hole.
These figures were created by Du Jin, active during the 15th century in the Ming dynasty.
I don’t normally rip entire stories, but I thought that it was short and important enough to warrant doing. I guess that puts St. Andrews as the second home or something. So my $64,000 question is, where did the original grand slam take place at?