1754 - Sports

Sports

Scotland's Royal and Ancient Golf Club has its beginnings in an organization founded at St. Andrews, Fife, by 22 local "noblemen and gentlemen" (see 1552; Edinburgh, 1744). It will make the 18-hole round standard beginning in 1764 by establishing the tradition of nine holes out and nine holes back, and adopt the R. and A. name in 1834 (see 1919).