[MR] For the weary fighter.....way OOP

[David Chessler]

At 02:52 PM 10/16/2007, Olwen the Odd wrote:

>Sure it's out of period, and if they had them I am not convinced 
>they would have used them, but so very entertaining.....
>
>http://www.electrikmotion.com/golfmainpage.htm
>Living at the bottom of Rune Stone hill brings you face to face with 
>some of the lesser entertaining methods of armor transport.

Golf is period.

The first game of golf for which records survive was played at 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruntsfield_Links>Bruntsfield Links, in 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh>Edinburgh, 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland>Scotland, in A.D. 1456, 
recorded in the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive>archives of the 
Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society, now 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Burgess_Golfing_Society>The 
Royal Burgess Golfing Society.

But in those days anyone who was anyone always had a footman handy. 
Think of it as an artificial footman, just as a caddy is a hired footman.