What’s your handicap when it comes to your golf game? Are you immediately thinking of your bad back or the fact that you can’t seem to keep your head down?
A handicap in golf is not a reference to what’s keeping you from playing a great game. Your handicap is the numerical measure of an amateur [...]
If you want to play golf, just grab your clubs and some friends and head out to the course, right?
There’s much more to how you can actually play golf than that. Most just go on the course in an “every man for himself” type of structure but understanding these other forms of play can actually [...]
You may already know that a hole’s par is the number of strokes a golfer should need to complete the play of this particular hole. A hole that is four par means that a skilled golfer should reach the green in two strokes and then putt an additional two strokes before sinking their ball.
Typical courses [...]
Penalty strokes are counted when a player breaks a rule or when the ball is hit into an unplayable situation – such as across an expressway or through someone’s windshield! If the ball is lost or hit out of bounds this too means a penalty stroke.
If a golfer makes a stroke at the wrong ball [...]
Yes, your game would be much more successful if there were no hazards for you to play around but it would also be much more boring, wouldn’t it? Avoiding the hazards or learning how to get out of them is a good part of what makes the game challenging.
As with so many other parts of [...]
The rules of golf are composed by the United States Golf Association or USGA. Some of their rules include:
Every player is entitled and obliged to play the ball from the position where it has come to rest after a stroke, unless a rule allows or demands otherwise (Rule 13-1).
A player must not accept assistance in [...]
“The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.”
~ From To the Linksland by Michael Bamberger
How many times have you watched a particular sport and thought to yourself that there was no rhyme or reason or logic to what was happening on the playing [...]
