Have your First Golf Experience!

Golf is a contact sport being introduced in mid 1940s. This game does not require running a mile or jumping around but this game is much more elegant and decent. Golf indeed is not limited to gender or age. Every person who indulges in this game loves playing it. Golf is often played individually or could be played in a team as well. A person who plays golf is referred as a golfer and the ground in which this sport is played is knows as a golf course.

Let's start off by discussing how golf is played. In this sport golfer has to put ball into a series of 18 holes altogether with minimum strikes in order to win. The stick required to put the ball in the hole is known as a club. There are different types of club on the golf course depending upon the shot; for instance, for a long short a club with a piece of wood on its front is used and is known as a driver; on the other hand putter is used for shots with shorter distance to the hole.

A golf course is a grassy ground with water hazards, sand bunker, rough area and the fairway. Water hazards are there to make the sport more complicated and hard. A fairway is a passage where a golfer can work the ball around and getting closer to the putting green; the place on which the hole is located with a flag.

Handicap tracker is a golfing terminology, which actually is a formula to calculate the playing ability of a golfer. He/she needs to record the ranking and score and then simply place the values in the formula in order to obtain the results. This result is accepted all around the golf courses and one can assess his/here playing skills.

Usually, players reserve a tee time to play this game; a tee time is a specified time held reserved by the player and on the specified time he/she is required to be at the golf course and hit the first shot. It only saves time but also money since many golf websites now offer discounted tee times along with complete database of golf courses and honest reviews from the golfer's community.

Going out to a golf course could really help you in restoring all your energy and this game is recommended by many as a perfect hobby for the youngsters. Though youngsters were not a lot into this game before but now the trend is changing and even youth is now directed to this game.