Golf's apart

Wonderful news item this morning. Apparently an old illustrated manuscript from China shows men in various leisure activities including golf. This rather scuppers the Scottish claim to have invented the game in the fifteenth century apparently.

I think it's interesting that people need to know WHO invented the game. So often we play games with our young people which we've learnt from other youth clubs or youth workers without that kind of need for provenance.

It's not the inventing the game that counts - it's the taking part!