GOLF --- Four! or Fore! or For!?

Question

Why do golfers yell four (or is it fore, or for???)

Answer 1

It's "fore", meaning in front because you are usually hitting the ball toward the pin. And it carries well. Try yelling, "Hey you in the funny pants! My ball is coming at you!"

"Fore!" is much easier to holler.

Answer 2

Golf Term Fore

Answer 3

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Answer 4

What a great question.

It's FORE.

Private golf clubs used to have fore-caddies that would walk up ahead of players to better keep an eye for tee shots that were off target, so yelling

"FORE!"

was really a call out to the fore-caddy to keep an eye on that crappy shot the golfer just hit.

The phrase "FORE!" stuck even after fore-caddies were phased out.

Answer 5

"Fore" is another word for "ahead" (think of a ship's fore and aft). Yelling "fore" is simply a shorter way to yell "watch out ahead" (or "watch out before"). It allows golfers to be forewarned, in other words.
The British Golf Museum cites an 1881 reference to "fore" in a golf book, establishing that the term was already in use at that early date (the USGA suggests the term may have been in use as early as the 1700s). The 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."
This is another term, however, whose exact origin can't be stated. It does originate, however, in the fact that "fore" means "ahead" and, used by a golfer, is a warning to those ahead.
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GOLF --- Four! or Fore! or For!?
Why do golfers yell four (or is it fore, or for???)

Answer 8

The term "FORE" is about the only good thing that English players ever added to the native Scottish game of golf. the term is basically short for 'Forewarned' and supposedly was introduced by English players in either the 1820's or 1840's.

Now if someone can confirm that GOLF really came from a sign that read 'Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden', and the wives of the players of the unnamed pasttime began to refer to it by the capital letters, I'll be happy.

Answer 9

I'll tell you the real answer:

In Scotland about 1000 years ago (around that time)
FORE meant watch out or duck. They would also say FORE in other places. It was actually a very common word. So that is the actual answer! FORE!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

Definition: A word of warning yelled out by a player who has hit an errant shot. If your shot is in danger of hitting or landing very close to another player or group of players on the course (for instance, if you slice a ball into an adjoining fairway), you should yell "fore!" to warn players to watch out.

"Fore" is another word for "ahead" (think of a ship's fore and aft). Yelling "fore" is simply a shorter way to yell "watch out ahead" (or "watch out before"). It allows golfers to be forewarned, in other words.
The British Golf Museum cites an 1881 reference to "fore" in a golf book, establishing that the term was already in use at that early date (the USGA suggests the term may have been in use as early as the 1700s). The 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."

This is another term, however, whose exact origin can't be stated. It does originate, however, in the fact that "fore" means "ahead" and, used by a golfer, is a warning to those ahead.