[4mycountry]

Ladies are welcome players.

Actually that wasn't always so. When the game was invented it was called "golf" as an acronym: Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. GOLF

[Lazamataz]

You'll never see one of these on a golf course:

[Peter Porcupine]

When the game was invented it was called "golf" as an acronym: Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. GOLF

Actually, no...it derives from a Scots word, gouf, meaning a strike or a blow. The "l", as in walk, talk, could, should, calm, and, decreasingly, Palmer once was silent.

As a rule, acronymns-as-etymologies (the most popular being POSH, WOP, TIP, COP, and if you'll excuse me, F*CK), at least as far as words older than the twentieth century are concerned, are bunk. "Gentleman Only Ladies Forbidden" is, I'll admit, a new one on me.

[Lurker]

Actually they called it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.

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