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Research Paper: 
Golf vs. Baseball

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Imagine a golfer swinging a golf club at a speed of over 100 miles per hour.  Also imagine a batter swinging a bat at a speed of over 80 miles per hour.  The force these athletes apply on the ball with their golf clubs or bats is tremendous, and this athletic feat is not easily done.  It requires plenty of practice, dedication, and commitment on the athlete’s part.  However, which sport is more difficult to learn and master?  Baseball, for a long time now, has been known as America’s past time.  From the very beginning, it has been and still is the most popular sport in the United States especially as a spectator sport.  It is exciting, fast moving, and watched by many fans.  Golf, on the other hand, is slow moving and travels over large pieces of differently shaped terrain.  But it is not necessarily the easier sport.  Golf compared to baseball is actually the harder sport to learn and master because of the amount of skills that have to be learned such as the game play, the rules, the fundamentals, and the techniques.

Both golf and baseball are two of the oldest sports in the United States.  The game of golf was first played with a bent stick and a ball made of feathers by the Romans.  It did not stay that way very long though.  By the 14^th century, Scotland took up the game.  It became so popular that it overtook the practice of archery, which was needed for military purposes.  Obviously, the Scottish government was not very pleased so they passed a law prohibiting the sport in 1457.  Despite the passing of the law, the Scottish population kept on playing including the King of Scotland at the time, King James IV.

In 1744 and 1754, the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers and the Saint Andrew’s Society Golfers became the first golf associations to be established.  In 1873, the first golf club in North America was established in Canada called Royal Montreal Golf Club.  The first club in the United States was in New York called Saint Andrew’s

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