Golf & T'ai Chi

For as long as golf has been played in the modern age, it’s been assumed that Scotland was it’s original home and birth-place, with the game dating back to around 1784 and the rules first set out at St Andrew’s. However, there is now compelling evidence from Peking University and China’s Palace Museum to suggest that a game recognisable as the game you know and love as golf today, was actually being played in China as far back as 945AD.

During roughly the same cultural period in China (the Sung Dynasty AD 960 – 1279), a Shao Lin Kung Fu master by the name of Chan San Feng created the soft style martial art known as T’ai Chi – now practised by millions of people around the globe - which he based on natural movements he’d witnessed in nature by watching animals such as the crane and the snake, and by observing elements such as water.

As attendees of our unique chi-power GOLF workshops are discovering, there are many similarities between these two arts – both of which require the attainment of stillness within motion, the use of good body structure, balance, awareness, and of course, focused relaxation.

By the way - Chi (which rhymes with "tee") is the ancient Chinese term for energy, vitality or life-force.

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