a question for anyone that knows anything about golf?
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Tom Kite and Ben Crenshaw used to play a game to help improve bunker shots and chip shots.  The first person hit the ball as close to the selected target without going past.  The next person can't pass the other person's ball.  So the shot keeps getting shorter until someone hit's it to far.  The person will lose the bet
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Golf is a game you can never be good enough at.  There's always a better way to drive, putt, chip, etc.  It's a very challenging sport that anyone with enough body parts can play but very few really get good at it.  It's also addictive.  I live in a Florida community where everyone has a golf cart garage and these old people hit the courses as soon as it gets light out every day and they're dead serious about it, then the rest of the day they talk about golf and watch the Golf channel and look for better clubs to buy.  It's really kind of funny.
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I've never played it, but I know someone who did, and we were talking about it while watching.\n\nMe: What club did you hit?\nHim: I hit my 8 iron...all five times.\n\nApparently, there used to be no fringe, just straight green, meaning you wanted to avoid roll as much as possible.
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Scotland...\n\nNobody knows exactly how golf started but most scholars say that the\ngame of golf was from club in German or Dutch, “Kolbe” or “Kolf” and\ngolf started from a man hitting stones with stick instinctively in\nancient days.\n  \nW.G.Simpson explained the origin that golf began by a shepherd on a\nsheep pasture in Fifeshire, which became the Royal and Ancient Golf\nClub of St. Andrews. One day a man was playing with a small stone\nhitting by a stick as usual but then the stone fell into a rabbit hole\nby chance. When he was trying to put a stone in a hole again, his\nfriends saw it and joined together.\n   \nIt also can be said that golf started among the ancient Romans. This\ngame was played with a bent stick and a leather ball filled with\nfeathers. The Roman army conquered Europe bringing the sport them and\ngolf was spread over the European countries.\n  \nThere is another suggestion that “Koven”, a Dutch game, is the origin\nof golf. The game consisted of people trying to hit a stick with a\nminimum of strokes using a ball which was the same size as a\ngrapefruit. 200 years later, golf was established in Scotland.\n  \nMoreover, another opinion is that golf came from the Flemish game of\n“Chole” played in 1353. This game was played by two players hitting\nthe same ball three times each using a stick to reach the far goal.\n  \nThese games are similar to recent golf but not exactly the same. It is\nsure that golf naturally results from such sports as these. Records\nsay that a kind of golf was played in Scotland in the 15th century,\nand it was developed by Scots.
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The next mjor is the U.S. Open\n\nHere's some info for you:\n\nWinged Foot Golf Club (West Course) Mamaroneck, N.Y. \nJune 15-18 \nYardage: 7,266 yards \nPar: 35-35 – 70 \nDefending Champion: Michael Campbell \nOpened: 1923 \nDesigner: A.W. Tillinghast \n\nUSGA Championships: No club in the state of New York has hosted more USGA events than Winged Foot -- this will be the 11th. The club has been the site of four previous U.S. Opens and two U.S. Amateurs. It also has had two U.S. Women’s Opens and one U.S. Senior Open. It is the only club to have hosted all three Opens, the U.S. Amateur and Walker Cup. The course will play 11 yards longer than it did for the 2004 U.S. Amateur. \n\nBehind The Name: The club derived its name from a sculpture that stands in the lobby of the New York Athletic Club on Central Park South in Manhattan. A winged foot symbol similar to the club’s is imbedded in the floor. Many early members came from the NYAC. Over the years, it was perceived that Winged Foot and NYAC had a distinct connection, which is not the case. \n\nWhy It’s Right: The course consistently ranks among the best in the country as well as one of the most challenging. \n\nNo Pushover: When the U.S. Open was held here in 1974, the championship was dubbed “The Massacre at Winged Foot” by noted sportswriter/author Dick Schaap because of the brutally tough conditions. Winner Hale Irwin finished at 7-over 287. \n\nThrilling Duel: In the 1929 U.S. Open, Bob Jones nearly blew a six-stroke lead on the back nine, but he holed a difficult 12-foot par putt at the 72nd hole and then defeated Al Espinosa in a 36-hole playoff by 23 strokes. It was written that that championship was the impetus for Jones’ Grand Slam in 1930. \n\nPro Pedigree: Craig Wood, winner of the U.S. Open and Masters in 1941, was the head pro from 1939-45, while two-time U.S. Open runner-up Mike Brady served in that capacity for 15 years. Claude Harmon, the 1948 Masters champion, was the head pro from 1945-78, and some of his staff included 16-time PGA Tour winner Mike Souchak (1953), and 2003 Bobby Jones Award winner Jackie Burke Jr. (1949-50). Burke won the Masters and PGA Championship titles in 1956. Another former staffer was 1965 PGA winner Dave Marr (1954-56). Winged Foot member Dick Mayer went on to win the 1957 U.S. Open following his tutoring under Wood and Harmon. And long-time member Tommy Armour won a U.S. Open (1927), British Open (1931) and PGA (1930). \n\nLegend Of David Mulligan: A familiar golf term was likely borne from this early member of Winged Foot. Mulligan, who became president of New York City’s famous Biltmore Hotel, was known to be a slow starter; his drives off the first tee often went astray. He then would turn to his friends and plead for “another chance.” His colleagues often obliged and through the years, a Mulligan has been synonymous with a ‘do-over.’ President Eisenhower adopted this word into his vocabulary, thus popularizing the term into golfing vernacular. \n\nTillie’s Best: A.W. Tillinghast called the 10th hole on the West Course the finest par 3 he ever constructed. Noted author Dan Jenkins selected the hole for his book: “The Best Eighteen Holes in America.” He quoted Ben Hogan as saying it’s “a 3-iron into someone’s bedroom,” referring to the home of a member behind the green. Jack Nicklaus also included the hole in his choice of “The Most Challenging 18 Holes,” for a 1992 television special on ABC. \n\nQuote/End Quote: “Winged Foot is to golf what Wimbledon is to tennis – what Yankee Stadium is to baseball. Winged Foot is a state of mind.” – Dave Marr, 1965 PGA winner. \n\nFast fact: Winged Foot’s first junior member, Dick Chapman, won the 1940 U.S. Amateur.
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Hello shorty\n\n32 for 9 holes and 67 for 18 on a par 70. Even par is a great round on any golf course, you did good.\n\nMost folks dont realise how good an even par round is, but I do.\n\nPlay well and I wish for a -5 round for you soon.\n\nLeon
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Try \n\nhttp://www.golfgalaxy.com
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September 2005 Golf Digest did a feature on college golf.  They broke them down in a number of ways, including skill, academics, balance, and available local courses. The article is really indepth and has a lot of great information about coaches and other players, and I couldn't do it justice summarizing it, so see if you can find it at your library.\n\nDuke was ranked number 1 though.
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The scoring system for golf is actually very simple.\n\nEach hole on every course is given a "par" score..in other words the number of shots it should take you to get your ball from the tee to the hole. The par for a hole depends on its length and difficulty. \n\nA "bogie" is  the par score for a hole plus one..so if you take 5 shots on a par 4 hole, thats a bogie..and thats not good!\n\nA "birdie" is the par score for a hole minus one..so if you only take 3 shots on a par 4 hole, that's a birdie...and that's good!\n\nThe winner is the golfer who take the fewest shots to go round all 18 holes on a course.\n\nThe best way to learn is to play,  or just watch the big tournaments on the TV. You will soon pick it up.
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"NFG research shows that only 22% of all golfers regularly\n\nscore better than 90 for 18 holes on a regulation length course. For\n\nfemales, the percentage drops to 7%, and for males it goes up to 25%.\n\nThe average 18-hole score on a full-size course is 97 for men and 114 for\n\nwomen. It's an even 100 for all golfers. Only 6% of the men and 1% of the\n\nwomen say they break 80 regularly."
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Right here\nhttp://www.ggolf.com/Chamois_MMU1104.html
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Hi.\n\nI'm 14 years old with a 12 handicap and two weeks ago I hit that kind of a shot. I'm used to hitting perfect shots as I am a pretty good and consistent golfer. But the other day was the best. On the 155 yard Par-3 at my course, I hit a 6-iron. It was so perfect that it didn't kame any noise as I struck it and I didn't feel anything at all in my hands at contact. It went high and dead straight. It stopped dead, 3 feet away from the hole. I then proceeded to make the birdie putt.
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Golf is a game in search of perfection. However, there are very few sports in which perfection can be attained (i.e. 300 in bowling).\n\nAdditionally, golf courses have a number that is considered normal, or "par." The idea is to get the least amount of strokes under par... the lowest score wins. \n\nThink about this... there are a multitude of variables on a golf course as well as with any player at any given moment. For example, a golf course may be wet the next morning after an evening rain. You might have done really well on the dry course the day before, however, since the weather changed, the conditions are different and scores will be altered. \n\nAlso, strength and fatigue have a lot to do with a golfer's capability to score well. As with any sport, training is necessary. However, strength may be lost at one point in time because of something simple as a bad night's sleep or in Tiger Woods' case, a father who is ailing from cancer. \n\nAnyways, putting a golf ball in a 3 1/2" hole from 150-600 yards away in one shot is very difficult. There are limitations that humans have... if one person can hit the ball 450 yards, he's not going to be very accurate. However, another person may be able to hit the ball only 300 yards but may be able to get around the green like a veteran pro.\n\nHope this explanation helps!
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A foursome is playing together.  Each golfer plays his/her ball like normal until they hole out.  The two best scores of the four are the only ones recorded for that hole.  Same procedure for all 18 holes.
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Heres a great link ,,,\n\nhttp://www.golftoday.co.uk/clubhouse/coursedir/england.html\n\nshould have all the info you need, good golfing.\n\nLeon
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In golf you are given (at each hole) a certain number of shots that you should need to get your ball from the tee to the hole. If you manage it in exactly that number of shots, it's a par....so say you were at the first tee and it said you had to take 5 shots to get the ball in the hole, so you hit the ball 5 times & got it in the hole...then you've got a par. But if you only take 4 shots to get it in the hole, then it's birdie because you're one under the par. And an eagle is 2 under the par...so you'd do it in 3.\nI hope that sort of makes sense...I'm rubbish at explaining things!!!
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Every course has a set number of "par."\n\nPar is when you hit the ball a certain number of times. Let's say the par is 3. That means, according to the course, you should be able to sink your ball in 3 shots.