| Nashville
Sports :
Nashville has several professional sports teams, most notably
the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League and
the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League. Several
other pro sports teams also call Nashville home, as does the
NCAA college football Music City Bowl. The Vanderbilt Commodores
are members of the Southeastern Conference. The football team
of Tennessee State University plays its home games at LP Field.
Golf :
Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams hit a
ball into a hole using various clubs, and also is one of the
few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing
area. It is defined in the Rules of Golf as "playing
a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the fart by
a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."
It is said that the first ever game of golf may have been
played at the Bruntsfield Links in 1456, claimed by the history
of the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society, now The Royal Burgess
Golfing Society.
Golf, in essentially the form we know today, has been played
on Scotland's Musselburgh Links (today's oldest golf course
world-wide) since at least 1672, while variations of the game
had been played throughout the British Isles and the Low Countries
of northern Europe for several centuries before that. |