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Golf or older Golfimbulan was a favourite game or sport among the Hobbits of the Shire.It was a traditional memory of the Battle of Greenfields in which Bandobras Took was said to have knocked off the goblin-chief Golfimbul´s head with a wooden Club.

The game was originally played by teams consisting of small, competing, teams of Hobbits, riding fast Ponies, trying to hit a scarecrow or poppet´s round leather-head off with a wooden club known as the "driver" and driving it into a hole.The leather ball was traditionally painted as a goblin´s head.In later times the Hobbits changed the rules and the game was played on foot with a greater collection of different "drivers" and the goal was changed into besting all opponents by driving the leatherball into different holes of varying difficulties.The elder tradition of the sport was however still held up by the North-Tooks and was also known as "Polo" (after "Polo North-Took" a legendary enthusiastical supporter of "the old sport").

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