Golf : All The Best Free Flash Games Relating To Golf

Over the last few years, golf has become more and more popular, notably thanks to champions like Tiger Woods. As in many other sports, using the name of a famous sportsman assures the game publisher his game will be sold in more than one million units.

Electronic Arts well understood the idea by making Tiger Woods sign a contract of dozens of millions so that they could use his name on the Tiger Woods PGA Tour game boxes.

Following this success, various publishers attempted to get their share of the juicy pie of golf games, but eventually only got crumbs.

The only exception concerns the Links series which realized some excellent softs to compete with the American giant and to establish itself as the leader.

The origins of the word “golf” are quite vague. A sympathetic common belief let us think that it was the acronym for “Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden”. Indeed, some centuries ago, golf was only played by men, who were members of private clubs, and came from upper classes. But it seems that in fact, Golf comes from the Dutch meaning for stick, “Colf”... not as glamorous but far more realistic than the other explanation...

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Golf was already played during the Antiquity. But evidence of the first official game goes back to around 1500, between James IV of Scotland and the Earl of Bothwell.
Astronaut Shepard even played golf on the moon in 1970! After he completed his mission, he started playing, only for a couple of minutes. Golf is not as easy on the moon as it is on Earth!

There are many different kinds of golf games, more or less realistic and well realized. You will find the best golf games on our TomsGames.com website.

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