THE STORY OF GHANA GOLF

Legends of the Ghana Golf.

1,000,000 years ago, a girl named Asantewaa was born in what was then Ghana, she would have a decisive impact on human survival and on Ghana. At this time, women and men were equal.

Women were a little more important than men as they could give birth to children and the children were a prerequisite for the tribes to live on.

At this time, the world's population lived in fear of predators.

One of the predators was from the lion. It was a giant lion. The lion often got a taste of eating humans when it got it, it could one day eat up the population of an entire village. So slowly was man becoming extinct.

Humans had tried to kill the lion for several generations for several hundred years but failed when weapons with spears and bows only bounced on the lion's skin when it was like armor.

Humans had found lions that had died of old age, it had then been discovered that the lion had between its eyes a hole in the skeleton that was a little bigger than a golf ball.

To protect themselves against smaller animals, wooden clubs were used at this time.

If you were to succeed in protecting yourself, it was important to get close to the animal.

The wooden clubs they used to protect themselves were a wooden club that was narrow at one end and at the other end it was a lump so you could say that it looked like a clumsy golf club.

Asantewaa accompanied her mother on the hunt, at first her mother carried her on her back.

When she grew up, she ran with the tribe's other children, she then asked her father that she too could have a club. She got it from her dad.

Instead of playing with the other children, she went into the woods, looking for round stones, which she then struck out with the club.

When she reached the age to enter the world of adults. Gathered everyone in the tribe to and see her go through the rituals that belonged to enter the adult world.

One of the rituals was that she would show something to the tribe that could help the tribe.

The tribe had for many generations tried to find effective protection against the lion.

But because it was invulnerable and saw man as an easy prey to hunt, no one had been able to find effective protection from the lion.

During the ritual, a scout came running and warned the tribe that one of the lions was coming towards them and it was hungry.

So the tribe knew that this was the end for them there was no point in trying to escape because out of the lion I would take them and eat them.

So Asantewaa took out a round stone and his club. It became quite quiet in the trunk.

So when the lion came at full speed, Asantewaa laid down a stone aiming with the club then she struck her blow.

Stone flew away hitting the lion in the middle of the eyes in the place where the lion had no leg protection.

The lion died directly at Asantewaa's feet.

The tribe rejoiced. And the Gulf of Ghana was born.

Asantewaa was elected the first female chief in her tribe and taught her golf technique to all the women in the tribe.

Other tribes heard spoken Asantewaa knowledge and also want to learn how to kill from the lion.

So after a while she was chosen by the other chiefs as queen over all the tribes in the world.

As queen, introduced competitions where the women of the tribes competed on different courses to decide which tribe women were the best these were the first senior championships in Ghana golf.

As queen, she chose five men with whom to create her five daughters. The men she chose were a man with the highest intelligence in her queen's kingdom, a man with the highest physical strength in her kingdom, a man who was the kindest and friendliest in the kingdom, one who was the most skilled hunter and tracker in the kingdom and a man who was the most loving in the kingdom.

Every daughter she gave birth to became a great-grandmother of a tribe in Africa.

Each daughter made the same choice that she made of five men in her own tribes to have five daughters.

So did Asantewaa's granddaughter, so when she was 100 years old she was the great-grandmother of the original 125 tribes in Africa.

So these 125 queens ruled as the world population of the time in peace between each other and in balance with nature and humanity grew in prosperity.

Had Asantewaa not come to the Gulf of Ghana, humanity would have been exterminated from the lion now died out of the lion instead.

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