So many Scots were in this early golf-esque game that they were neglecting their archery practice – a sport the Crown relied on for defending the country’s borders. If we are looking back to find a game that we recognize as golf, we must jump in the Wayback Machine and set the dial for Scotland in 1457. Take your pick – all of these stories have been posited as golf’s origin story. Shepherds whacking pebbles up and down Scottish sand dunes. Dutchmen in the Middle Ages banging balls across frozen canals. Chinese hackers practicing chip shots off the Great Wall during the Ming Dynasty. Ancient Romans playing controlled fades around Corinthian columns. Andrews, image: .ukĭo you know who invented golf? If not, you’re not alone – no one does for sure. In 2747 of the Third Age, goblins from Mount Gram attacked the Shire in the Battle of the Green Fields, and it was Bullroarer who led the hobbits and repelled the attack.St Andrews, about 1740, credit to The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Because of his size, Bullroarer was large enough to ride a real horse, but it wasn’t just riding that made him go down in history. He was exceptionally large for a hobbit, topping out at four feet, five inches, which was the largest hobbit in history (other than Merry and Pippin after they drank the Ent-draughts). In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Bilbo tried to say that he wasn’t adventurous, and that’s when Bullroarer came up. (The story is also in The Hobbit, but Gandalf doesn’t actively tell it to Bilbo.) In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the wizard did so by telling him the story of his great, great grand uncle, Bandobras Took - more commonly known as Bullroarer. So, Gandalf had to persuade the hobbit to join their company. He was adventurous, but he didn’t have a death wish. So, the wizard knocked a “nudge out of the door,” and the rest was history - well, not exactly.īilbo took a bit of convincing before he was willing to leave his life behind in pursuit of a bloodthirsty dragon. On top of that, Bilbo occasionally displayed some of that adventurous spirit, according to Tolkien’s Unfinished Tales book. For one, he was a Took on his mother’s side, and Tooks were a bit more adventurous than many, much more respectable hobbits. Gandalf had several reasons for choosing Bilbo in particular. Of course, a frontal assault against a dragon’s stronghold was ill-advised, so Gandalf opted to recruit Bilbo Baggins as a burglar. Since he didn’t know that the Balrog was in Moria, he considered Smaug to be the biggest threat to ally with Sauron, which is why he recruited a band of Dwarves to take the dragon off the table. He knew that Sauron was rebuilding his power as the Necromancer, and he feared what would happen if the Dark Lord recruited other evils to his side.
Gandalf had his work cut out for him in The Hobbit. Here’s the story of Bardobras Took and how he invented golf. In fact, Tolkien says that it was a particularly unique hobbit who invented the game of golf. While fantasy, fitness and sports may seem like an odd combination, it’s not unheard of. For the exercise buffs among fantasy fans, Lord of the Rings has a brand-new fitness challenge that’s a super cool way to get your LOTR fix while staying in shape.
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