Golfing At St. Andrews (556 Piece Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle)

Considered by many to be the "home of golf," the Old Course at St Andrews is stunning. The sport has been played there since around 1400 AD.Golf began to grow in popularity in Scotland during the middle ages, and it was banned in 1457 by King James II of Scotland, who felt it was distracting young men from archery practice. Subsequent Scottish kings continued the ban until 1502 when King James IV repealed the ban after becoming a golfer himself. The Old Course originally consisted of twenty-two holes, eleven out and eleven back. On completing a hole, the player teed up his ball within two club lengths of the previous hole, using a handful of sand scooped out from the hole to form a tee. In 1764, the Society of St Andrews Golfers decided that some holes were too short and combined them. This reduced the course to eighteen holes and created what became the standard round of golf throughout the world.St Andrews hit a dark time in 1797 when the St. Andrews Town Council declared bankruptcy