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"Fore" is another word for "ahead" as in a ship's fore and aft.
The British Golf 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."
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How did people get hit by golf balls?
People get hit by golf ball because they don't pay attention to their surroundings on the golf course. And the person that hit them didn't yell "FORE!" (:
Why do golfers yell fore?
It's another way of saying "watch out" According to the site about.com: 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.
Why say four in golf?
It is 'fore' not 'four' - meaning afore - watch out afore.
How do you say golf in German?
golf = der Golf golf = das Golfspiel golfing (game) = das Golf gulf (geolog.) = der Golf to golf = golfen | golfte, gegolft to golf = Golf spielen to play golf (game) = Golf spielen
Why did they choose the word fore to yell out why not some other word?
There are several claims to the derivation of the word, most being contractions of common phrases.The artillary officer's call 'beware before' prior to firing.The call to a caddy, forward of play, whose job it was to search for the ball.A reference to the Gaelic Faugh a Ballach!: clear the way.Or even the prosaic 'forewarned is forearmed'.
