This website is meant for all those who are interested in the continental ‘stick and ball’ games Choule/Jeu de Crosse, Jeu de Mail/Pall Mall, Colf and their relation to the Scottish game of Golf and other stick and ball games

Geert & Sara Nijs, sport historians, have specialised in the history of these games.
The authors are members of the:
European Association of Golf Historians and Collectors (EAGHC)
British Golf Collectors Society (BGCS)
Association Patrimoniale du Golf Français (APGF)

On this website only photographs and illustrations are included which are the property of the authors, or for which the rightful owners have given explicit permission to use for this purpose.

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