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Article: Manatee County (Florida) challenges Scotland (and other claimants) as golf's birthplace.
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- PR Newswire
- Article date:
- March 27, 1990
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MANATEE COUNTY (FLA.) CHALLENGES SCOTLAND (AND OTHER CLAIMANTS) AS
GOLF'S BIRTHPLACE
BRADENTON, Fla., March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Where did the game of golf originate? Scotland, you say? Not according to Manatee County, Fla., tourism officials here, who claim they have "convincing evidence" that the popular sport was born right here by the Timucuan Indian tribe, nearly 500 years before Columbus discovered America and more than 500 years prior to Scotland's alleged claim.
What's more, Manatee County challenges other golfing areas of the world to come up with "a more convincing concept than ours, and that includes ...
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