Golf

Golf is a sport in which an individual players or team slap a ball into a hole. Golf is one of those games that does not use any fixed area. It is defined in golf rules as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."
History of golf began from the year 1297 for the first time in the Netherlands in a city called Loenen aan de Vecht but has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles.

Anatomy of a golf course

Golf is played on a part of land called course. The course consist a chain of holes. A hole means both the hole in the ground in which the ball strike or the total space from the tee (a fixed area from where a ball is first slap) to the green (the lower area surrounded by the real holes in the ground). Majority of golf courses consist of eighteen holes. Hole is also named the cup. A land not in the limits of a course is an out of bounds. Few areas of the course are selected as ground under repair, or "G.U.R.". This is an area of the course where maintenances are being made by green keepers, or there is break to the course.

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Golf Handicap and playing

Golf handicap is a statistical calculation of an amateur golfer's skill to play golf over 18 holes. The two major formulas used in the game are stroke play and match play.

The Stroke play method is an individual mode of playing the game as you are challenging against the par of the course by hitting the ball the closest to it. The difference among your number of strokes and the par decide your handicap. While match play method is a game through which two players play beside each other. This formula was - and still is - so much valued by golfers. Handicap system is not used in professional golf.

World popularity

In 2005 Golf Digest estimated that there were nearly 32,000 golf courses in the world and about half of them are in the United States. Firstly Golf is considered as upper class game but now it is popular among every group of society.

Now you can also take the pleasure of golf at home or at your office in shape of mini golf. One other kind of golf called disc golf is also become very popular which is played with discs or Frisbees.
Today many weekly and monthly golf magazines are published with useful gold tips, gold jokes and all the other information about golf game. Golf also make its effect on other fields many famous moves are made on golf, recently an adult video named topless golf is released which become very popular. Further more countless beautiful wedding favors are available in market which can be a nice gift for your loved once. Lots of sites on internet offer you the facility complete online shopping of golf equipment more popular among them is golf galaxy club.
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