Golf hits a nation into the rough The question whether Chinese chuiwan really was the "great-grandfather" of modern golf is a new area of research in the history of sport. But researchers are in no doubt that the standard 18-hole game of golf which has taken the modern world by storm first came to popularity in Scotland.
中國捶丸與現代高爾夫是否真有「祖孫」關係，是史家研究的新領域；但現代風靡全球的標準十八洞高爾夫球運動，研究人員卻很確定是由蘇格蘭首先帶起風氣。