"About Golf"

"About Golf"

"About Golf"

Golf is a crazy game. It is the only game I know where you do your best to have the lowest score possible. It is played on a field (course), which has been specifically designed for golf and nothing else. The design usually uses the naturally terrain of the field as well as some of the original trees probably altered to add a hill or contour where the designer feels it is needed. If there are lakes or streams, these are designed into the holes as obstacles. And of course, a certain number of sand traps are added to make the course more difficult.

Traditionally, a golf course has 18 holes, but nobody really knows why. One favorite explanation is based on the fact that there are 18 shots in a bottle of scotch. It would be interesting to see how well you would be playing as you finish our bottle on the last couple of holes.

The average golf course has a par of 72 and is made up of 4 par 3 holes, 10 par 4's and 4 par 5's. Par is arrived at by adding two putts to the number of stokes an average player will take from the teeing ground to reach the putting surface near the hole.

Only professional golfers and top amateurs play a full round of golf at par on a consistent basis. Most of the rest of us are trying like hell to get pars. And we will do it some times, and even once in a while hit a great drive, knock our iron shot near the hole, and sink our putt for a one under par birdie. It is a great feeling.

What keeps us from being par golfers are the bad shots. We can play a string of holes well and then knock our drive out of bounds for a two stoke penalty. Or we come to the tee of the 9th hole and hit our drive into the pond in front of us. The next hole we hit our eight iron into the sand trap in front of the green and cannot get the ball out of the trap for a two over par double bogie. And worse, on the next hole we hit our twenty foot putt three feet past the hole and miss the three footer coming back for a one over par bogie that should have been a par. It is these shots that frustrate us and even can make us lose our cool and wonder why we are playing this game of golf.

But every day we head to the first tee we are confident that today our golf game will be great. We will not dub a drive, or hit the ball into the trees or the water. In fact we will avoid the disastrous double bogies and the missed putts for a great round.

This is our quest and to see our drives soar, our iron shots hit crisply and our putts fall into the hole. And along the way we may even get a few bounces along with the bad. A shot into the trees that miraculously bounces out into the fairway. The chip shot that somehow rolls into the hole. These can make up for the bad shots, and in the end can make our day. It is all part of the game of golf, and why we love this crazy game.

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