Bendelow: son of the pieman

Golf and Scotland have gone together for centuries. James II had to ban it in 1457 because it was distracting from military training. The ban was finally lifted in 1502 by James IV who is also the first recorded purchaser of a set of golf clubs. The shape of the game was standardised in 19t​ h​ century Scotland into an 18 hole game, each hole being the standard four and a quarter inch diameter as set by Musselburgh (that claims to be the oldest golf course in the world). 

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