Nobody really knows when or where golf began. Romans played games with a ball and a stick several hundred years ago. The Dutch used an implement to roll an object into a hole long, long ago. The Chinese used wooden objects to hit balls. When to celebrate Golf’s birthday is uncertain and the game may go back thousands of years. What we do know is that golf was given an identity and a set of rules by the Scots in March of 1744. Fourteen in all, the rules were documented and the standard was set for competitions. Granted, a few …