Same thing applies...
...it's an old word, so it's highly unlikely to be an acronym.
I don't know what the name golf means originally, but there were apparently lots of similar old Scottish names for games like golf before they evolved into the game we know today.
( ,
Mon 27 Oct 2003, 23:16,
archived)
I don't know what the name golf means originally, but there were apparently lots of similar old Scottish names for games like golf before they evolved into the game we know today.