KIN 2501 Lecture Notes - The Amateur Championship
2 Jul 2014
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Europeans traditions impact on early us and sport. Settlement together of immigrants and worked, entertained etc. Sports varied from level of class ex poor boxed. The sports philosophy, boys can learn the moral virtues of leadership, build character work ethic etc. Greek ideal man of mind and man of action. Playing for playing the game and enjoyment instead of money and the glory. Amateurs played for money while professionals played for money etc. Used a feather stuff ball and a bent stick. Put a ban on playing gold because they played more golf rather than practicing self-defense. St andrews royal and ancient golf club unofficially creation of golf. Golfers used handmade clubs from wood fruit trees. 1860, first major golf tournament, known as british open. Philiopsy naturalism idealism will not be on the test. Jonaann basebow believed it was important to study pe do manual labor and study. He set aside 3 hours for sports and games.
