The Encyclopaedia of Golf says that the deceptively simple "ball-into-hole" game of golf has taken countless people under its spell over the years, and down the ages who-knows-how-many games have been devised based on knocking balls into holes in the ground.
《高爾夫百科全書》就指出，高爾夫這種看來簡單的「進洞」遊戲，自古就風靡了千千萬萬人。從古至今，在地上挖幾個洞，把球推進去的遊戲，更不知凡幾。