Golf
The Beginning of Golf
Golf Score
When you play the great game of golf, your golf scores become your best friends as well as your worst enemies. Many players live by their golf scores and judge their progress based on what the scorecard says. While you may think your golf scores are the best gauge of how you are doing as a golfer, that’s not necessarily the case.
The way golf scores are added up can mean so many things. Just because you shot an 8 on a par 4 doesn’t mean you’re a bad golfer. It may mean you had a bad drive and a misdirected chip, but it doesn’t make you a bad golfer. So don’t put too much value on what the scorecard says. Judge your golf game by how you play, rather than what your scores are.
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scores are only meant to help you keep track of the strokes you take to get from the tee box to the hole. They never consider things like hazards, weather conditions, or fear. Sure, you can’t keep track of how you’re doing without paying attention to your golf scores, but you should keep in mind that there are a million variables that can cause your score to fluctuate.
Sure, if you’re a golfer, you know all the terminology—birdie, eagle, bogey, double eagle (if you’re really lucky)—but the real story in golf scoring lies in how you played the course and navigated the hole. Instead of keeping score, why not keep track of where you were for a particular shot and how that shot came out?
Let’s say you have a terrible ride on a par 4 and only get 100 yards from the tee box. Let’s hope it’s past the women’s t-shirt-if you know what I mean! So now you’re in for a long fairway shot. You grab your favourite club and hit a beautiful flyer on the green. Who’s going to say that it wasn’t a good wave? You end up with a par on the hole, but your score doesn’t really reflect that great shot, right?
The point is that you don’t put too much emphasis on the number of strokes on your scorecard. Think of your golf score as a reflection of the great shots you’ve had as well as the flubber you’ve had to endure. Then you can find out what kind of golfer you are and you don’t have to live on your golf score alone.
However, the Scots are generally adamant that the game of golf was a Scottish invention on the St. Andrews golf course. However, the name “golf” is a derivative of the Dutch word “kolf”, so who really invented the game, we say, who really cares?
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It doesn’t really matter who invented the game, but what does matter is how the history of golf has evolved over the years. Golf courses have not always had eighteen holes. St Andrews started with eleven holes, dictated by the topography of the land on which the course was located. Players played the 11 holes and then back to a total of 22 holes. Later, several holes were deemed too short and were combined with each other. That reduced the number from 11 to 9, so a full round of golf consisted of 18 holes.
By 1744, the game of golf had become extremely popular. So much so that a group of men called the Gentlemen Golfers decided that a set of rules should be established for fair play. They came up with a list of thirteen guidelines for playing the game.
Since the 1800s, there have been major changes in the equipment needed to play. Better mowers make the greens easier to play on. Golf ball designs would evolve with the use of rubber and man-made materials that would allow the ball to fly longer during a ride. The wooden golf tee would make riding easier.
No discussion of golf history would be complete without talking about the advancements that have been made in golf clubs. Metal shafts emerged in the 1930s, and most drivers were made of wood. That is why they are called “wood,” although today they are usually made of metal or titanium. The golf shaft design has also been changed to graphite, which is lighter and makes the club easier to swing.
Referring to the history of golf, we can argue about exactly where the game originated, but the game of golf as we know it today certainly originated in Scotland. Even if we’re wrong, we still have this beautiful game-and most of us are very happy with it!
Golf course
The game of golf is, of course, played on a golf course. But have you ever thought about what goes into making a good golf course? I mean, what is a good golf course and what is a less good golf course? While we don’t have the space to go through specific design layouts, we can point out some aspects of a golf course that make it fun to play, but also challenging.
Just like the miniature golf course, a regular golf course should be fun. You can’t really add the fun windmills or other hazards of a regular golf course, but you can use the natural elements of the land to build challenges into the layout.
The first thing you need is, of course, land. I mean, you need a lot of land! The golf course should have some long yardage holes as well as some shorter yardage holes. However, most golfers will agree that having mostly longer holes is a big challenge. But they also need those short par 3s for a little ego boost!
Challengers on the golf courses are many, especially if you have multiple sand bunkers. Bunkers are now placed both on the fairways and around the bunkers, giving more golfers a headache! Having to hit out of the sand makes for all kinds of shot adjustments, and golfers love the challenge at hand!
The challengers on the golf courses are many, such as the dreaded water hazards. Throughout the golf course, you will find rivers and lakes in their natural environment. Man-made water hazards are dug out and then filled with water over large areas. Water hazards require a player to use finesse to avoid them and make a golf course fun to navigate.
The golf course we play on most often used to be a cow pasture. The rolling hills that used to have Holsteins instead of golf carts make this particular golf course great fun to try “up and down”. Rolling hills will make the golf ball-guess what?-roll! You think you have a great drive and you could, but when your ball lands on the side of a hill, two things will happen: either it stops with a harder shot or it continues down the side of the hill. Anyway, this is another way to make a golf course challenging.
Natural trees and forests are also part of the golf course environment. When you hear the sound of your ball hitting a tree on the golf course, there is no worse sound. Then you have the fun task of figuring out where the ball landed. Did it go in further or did the tree prop it up in the fairway? You have a great way of challenging yourself against the natural elements.
The fun of designing a golf course is shared by both the player and the designer. Enjoy the natural elements of your favourite golf course and then navigate those hazards with a positive attitude. Then you will have fun!
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