| If you hear a golfer yell "fore," it is a heads up | | | | of front and back. Golfers yelling fore, warns the |
| warning that a wild ball may be coming your way. | | | | golfers in front to be on the lookout. Seems to |
| This is a common way to warn other people on | | | | explain how seafaring may have played a role. |
| the course to pay attention. No one seems to be | | | | Another possible origin was derived from fore |
| really sure exactly where the term fore cam | | | | caddy, often caddies were warned about erratic |
| from, there seems to be a number of different | | | | balls coming in their direction by yelling fore. A |
| versions where it may have originated from. | | | | theory in Scotland, suggests a fort was built |
| According to wikipedia the term was used as | | | | above a golf course. During artillery practice, the |
| early as 1881, meaning - look ahead. It was | | | | gunners shouted fore to warn golfers below. This |
| believed to have come from the military words | | | | also explains how the term fore, moved from a |
| "beware before" shouted when a battery was | | | | military usage to a golfer yelling fore, on the golf |
| fired behind friendly troops. Later it was | | | | course. Why Do Golfers Yell Fore? Regardless of |
| presumably shortened by golfers to fore. | | | | where it actually derived from, if you hear fore |
| Seafaring could also have played a part for this | | | | on the course, you have been warned that a ball |
| term. Mariners use the words fore and aft instead | | | | is coming your way. Heads up! |