Back in the days of the Roman Empire, a ball game named paganica was popular which involved a curved wooden stick and a leather ball stuffed with feathers; this, they say, was the real ancestor of golf.
早在羅馬帝國時代’就流行一種名為「Paganica」的球戲，彎曲的木桿，加上內部填滿羽毛的皮革球，才是高爾夫球的遠祖。