Golf Tee Art II

If you love to paint, then you can use uncolored, wooden tees, stick them in a peg board and paint your image on the tops. The photo gives you an idea of what it would look like and I have to admit; it is a beautiful conversation piece!

It is not very clear where the sport originated. Some suspect that a game called Paganica, in which a bent stick was used to hit a stuffed leather ball, was spread throughout Europe by the Romans and over time evolved in to what we know now as golf.

Some think it may have originated from a Chinese game played between the eighth and 14th centuries with what resembled a golf club being swung at a small ball with the intend of sinking it into a hole. Another early game that resembled modern golf was known as cambuca in England and chambot in France.

Others believe that golf descended from the Persian game, chaugán, or kolven which was played annually in Loenen, Netherlands, beginning in 1297, to commemorate the capture of the assassin of Floris V, a year earlier.

Most however believe the game finds its origin in Scotland around the 12th century, with shepherds knocking stones into rabbit holes on the current site of the Old Course at St Andrews.

No matter where it originated, some really unique and creative works of art can sprout from the imagination. In this project, the tees are captured in an epoxy resin. That opens up a whole new world of ideas; smaller pieces like this would make great paper weights.

With the Holidays around the corner, that might be a present which would suit any golf lover to a tee!