How To Play Golf

The Basic Information

The object of golf games is simple: bring a ball into a hole by hitting the least possible time with a club. The main challenge in golf is to read the environment of the course to develop the right strategies, make perfect shots and quickly complete the course, taking care to avoid the various obstacles placed here and there.

After some introductory sessions on the practices, acquiring a green card is required before taking the exam for the license to become a golfer formally and to play all the golf courses. Golf is one of the few sports that is not subject to review by an arbitrator and therefore appeal to the honesty of players who must ensure compliance with some principles of the sport, the most important thing is not hit a ball at the exact spot where it fell without moving or arranging surroundings to facilitate typing. To play golf, it is necessary to have a minimum of clubs and equipment. As there are many clubs, he must learn to use them correctly to blows adapted to different kinds of terrain, taking into account the obstacles in the path.

The golf equipment

To begin, the minimum for golf games is to have 6 clubs: the putter, 1 club in the woodwind family and 4 other clubs in the family of irons. There is a difference between the clubs for left or right handed and clubs for men or women. In terms of essential golf accessories include golf bag specially designed for the storage and classification of different clubs, special shoes that adhere fully respects the land and grass and finally, the golf glove.


The clubs are divided into two main categories: the "Wood" and "irons". The wood used to cover distances in a rather linear while the irons draw a path much more curved and are useful to send the ball high. The higher the number the club family "tree" increases, the strike force decreases. Regarding family "iron" over the issue of the club decreases, the ball should land further. Finally, we have a unique putter: This club is only used when the golfer is on the green begin to approach the hole.


The length of a golf course usually runs around 6 kilometers and includes several areas. The golf game begins on the starting area on which we note the presence of specific markings that serve to place the ball exactly in the level of golfer. At the other end, the hole is located on the green, an area of grass is very fine and high quality. Between the two, the fairway is an area with grass a little thicker, which serves as staging area before reaching the green.


Finally, the fairway is littered with obstacles, in addition to being used as design elements to the golf course, also make more difficult the progress of the golfer. Their arrangement and size depend only on the designer of golf courses that designed the plans. The more difficult the course is, the more interesting is the game and more golfers will have the right techniques. These barriers are grouped into two categories: the bunkers and water hazards. Bunkers assimilate into crevices bogged in which it is rather difficult to find a ball, while water hazards are water bodies that fit the landscape as lakes, ponds, river etc.