In September 1993, a British news agency released a story stating that chuiwan (" whack-ball "), or Chinese golf, appeared as long ago as the year 1282, in the reign of the Mongol emperor Kublai Kahn--over 400 years before the game was known in England.
一九九三年九月，英國一家通訊社發佈一則新聞指出：「捶丸」，或曰中國高爾夫球，早在元世祖至元十九年（西元一二八二年）就在中國出現，比這項運動在英格蘭出現的時間早了四百多年。