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Kolf

Also known as Dutch club-and-ball

Kolf: photograph by Aert van der Neer
Photo: Aert van der Neer, Public domain, source on Wikimedia Commons

Players hit a ball with a club toward a post at the far end of a court, with fewest strokes winning.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Netherlands.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Classical Worlds (about 1000 BCE to 500 CE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Celtic and Atlantic Europe.

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