A Few Simple Facts About The Game Of Golf
Golf is an excellent sport in which the objective is to have a player who uses several different kinds of clubs strikes a ball into a hole that is at some distance from where he or she first hit their first stroke and in the process uses the least number of strokes to get the ball into the hole. The idea is to complete an entire course (usually, of nine or eighteen holes) while making the least number of strokes to putt the ball into each hole of the course. A striking feature to playing golf is that it is one of the very few ball games in which the playing area is not clearly defined and it in fact stretches across a fair amount of distance.
Unique Designs
Each hole has its own design and so no two holes would involve the same kind of distance or obstacles or even level of difficulty. A player will use the most suitable club or driver or putter or wedge to get the ball into a hole that is at a distance from the teeing ground.
The first recorded instance of golf dates back to about 1456 A.D. when it was played in Scotland and more particularly in Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh. The game was soon exported south to England and presently it is being played in virtually every corner of the world.
One of the features of golf play is that is can be played in different ways including stroke play in which the person completing a course and who uses the least number of strokes is declared the winner. Another version of the game is the one known as stableford points play in which the player with maximum points wins the game, and there is even match play that involves completing the course either as a team or individual and in which the object is to have the lowest score in individual holes.
Today, golf is evoking great spectator interest and there are burgeoning numbers of professionals taking to this sport though amateurs too are turning to this sport in great numbers and in many more parts of the world as well. Famous golfers such as Tiger Woods and Annika Sorenstam have made the game even more popular and with a lot of sponsors too throwing their weight behind the game, golf has truly become a sport that has begun to enjoy mass appeal.
As mentioned above, playing golf involves using several different types of golf clubs which can even go up to as many as fourteen different clubs. From the time the word golf was first mentioned in the year 1457 till the present a lot of changes have been rung in, in order to popularize the game further. However, it continues to remain a very exciting sport and it is little wonder then that people from all parts of the world are taking to it, if only for the pleasure of swinging a club and then walking and getting some much needed exercise in the meantime.