KPDS 2003-1 Soru=78

It is pointed out in the passage that golf __________.

It may be that golf originated in Holland but certainly Scotland
fostered the game and is famous for it. In fact, in 1457 the Scottish
Parliament, disturbed because football and golf had lured young
Scots from the more soldierly exercise of archery, passed an
ordinance that banned football and golf. James I and Charles I of the
royal line of Stuarts were golf enthusiasts, whereby the game came
to be known as "the royal and ancient game of golf". The golf balls
used in the early games were leather-covered and stuffed with
feathers. Clubs of all kinds were fashioned by hand to suit
individual-players. The great step in spreading the game came with
the change from the feather ball to the present-day ball introduced in
about 1850. In 1860, formal competitions began with the
establishment of an annual tournament for the British Open
championship. There are records of "golf clubs" in the United States
as far back as colonial days. However, it remained a rather sedate
and almost aristocratic pastime until a 20-year-old Francis Ouimet of
Boston defeated two great British professionals, Harry Vardon and
Ted Ray, in the United States Open championship at Brookline,
Mass., in 1913. This feat put the game and Francis Ouimet on the
front pages of the newspapers and stirred a wave of enthuslasm for
the sport.