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Anyone add to the Google answers as to the true origin of a the Golf term"Mulligan".The best one I like is,there was a Irish bar in New York called "Mulligans' and the second shot of whiskey was free,and the bottle was placed on the bar.
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Re: Where the the term "Mulligan" originate?
Since you have googled already I won't quote from Wikipedia or Golf About.com (which both have various stories) except to say that the bit I like is the rider to the wikipedia entry in which the writer explains...
"Inasmuch as strokes taken after play is concluded on the 18th hole do not count towards the total entered on one's tally card, it seems to me eminently reasonable that any shots struck before play is properly commenced with a satisfactory drive on the first tee, should be of no more consequence to one's score than those swings which one has made by way of practice in the course of hitting balls upon the driving ground."
Makes perfect sense to me too
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