<P> "Fore!", originally an Australian interjection, is used to warn anyone standing or moving in the flight of a golf ball . The mention of the term in an 1881 Australian Golf Museum indicates that the term was in use at least as early as that period . </P> <P> It is believed to come from the military "beware before", which an artilleryman about to fire would yell alerting nearby infantrymen to drop to the ground to avoid the shells overhead . (Before may mean "in front of (the gun being fired)"; fore may mean "(look) ahead".) </P>

What does the word fore mean in golf