Golf may be one of the oldest of games, but it doesn’t seem to have been one of Shakespeare’s favourites as he never mentions it directly in any of his work.
Mary, Queen of Scots, on the other hand, is thought to have been an enthusiast. Golf's first documented mention was in 1457 when the game was prohibited in order to encourage the practice of the more useful skill of archery. But it had regained popularity by the time of Mary Stuart and Queen Elizabeth I.
Shakespeare’s home town, Stratford-Upon-Avon’s first official Golf Club was only founded there in 1894. That Club was originally in Shakespeare’s mother’s village of Wilmcote, then moved after a few years to the Welcombe Hills, on land which may have at one time belonged to Shakespeare.
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