Golf Invented in Sweden?

[iacas]

http://www.swedishgolfonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view;=article&id;=1667

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What made me sit up and take notice of this, seemingly, innocent video was the museum curator, Anders Wikström, answering the question what he thought this hunk of iron was. He said it was a golf club.

Wikström, who doesn't play golf, became interested on the golf aspect because the site where the iron piece was found had been was so meticulously cleaned of the debris usually found at archeological digs. Linking the cleaned surface, the remnants of a hole in the center, and clearly showing on the piece of iron where a shaft had been attached, Wikström, though not positive, now has a hypothesis that the  site might have been the remnants of a Viking golf course. He said further study needs to be made, especially with other museums and excavations around Sweden.

What this find may mean, is the Vikings were playing a game with a ball, a club and a hole about two centuries before the Scots called the game golf.

[Jmdmbike]

Maybe that explains why Sweden produces so many top caliber golfers!! Interesting stuff. PS - the sweet spot on that club looks pretty small..........Vikings must have had mad skills:-D