The story goes that the homeward route of a fisherman on the east coast of Scotland took him through grassland interspersed with sand dunes. The man was wont to pick up pieces of driftwood from the shore, with which he would strike at small round stones lying along his path. When one of these pebbles rolled into a rabbit hole, the game of golf was born.
據說，蘇格蘭東岸漁夫在返家路上經過佈滿沙丘的草坡地，會隨手撿起海岸漂來的浮木枯枝，朝著路旁的小圓石揮擊，其中有個球滾進了兔子窩，高爾夫這項運動因此誕生了。