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What is the origin of the golf terms 'Skin' or 'Skins' and 'Stob' or 'Staub'?
In golf, a skins event has players compete for prize money on each individual hole.
What is the origin of the term Russia?
means from a person in russia
What does the term of Norman Origin mean?
Norman Origin indicates from the country or racial stock of Normandy in northern France.
Is the origin of the term 'Magigger' Irish?
Perhaps you mean MacDuff.
Why do they yell fore when you play golf?
heads upYelling fore in a game of golf is like saying heads up. "Fore" is another word for "ahead" as in a ship's fore and aft.The British Golf Museum also surmises that the term evolved from "forecaddie."A forecaddie is a person who accompanies a group around the golf course, often going forward to be in a position to pinpoint the locations of the groups' shots. If a member of the group hit an errant shot, the thinking goes, they may have alerted the forecaddie by yelling out the term. It was eventually shorted to just "fore."A popular theory is that the term has a military origin. In warfare of the 17th and 18th century (a time period when golf was really taking hold in Britain), infantry advanced in formation while artillery batteries fired from behind, over their heads. An artilleryman about to fire would yell "beware before," alerting nearby infantrymen to drop to the ground to avoid the shells screaming overhead. So when golfers misfired and send their missiles - golf balls - screaming off target, "beware before" became shortened to "fore."
