Why do golfers shout 4 when they hit the ball, what does it mean?
969280
They are actually shouting 'fore' meaning in front of them. It's to warn people of an impending flying golf ball.
65439
Unfortunately its your tough luck. The rules of golf do not provide a remedy. Social conventions however vary and allow for possible striking or at least the hurling of expletives in his/her direction depending on how intentional the distraction was.
184306
I have noticed that the majority of golfers are older.\nGolf can actually be a good workout if you carry your bag.\nYou will get in several miles of vigorous walking, especially on a hilly course.\n\nAs far as liking a sport? Well?  The challenge of hitting a ball 400 yards, with a club, and doing it in just 4-5 shots is a challenge that is almost addicting, as you strive to make that 'great' shot..\n\nThink about it.  You are taking a ball less than 2 inchs, and smacking it only a few times to get it into a little hole some distance away.  \n\nThe bonuses of golf are the cute cart girls, who bring refreshments, and meeting new people, and a feeling of being in the great outdoors.\n\nAnd the best reason to play golf is you get to break away from your regular chores.
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Perhaps you are aware of the scoring system in Golf. \n\n2 over Par -- Double Bogey \n1 over Par -- Bogey \nEven Par -- Par \n1 under Par -- Birdie \n2 under Par -- Eagle \nIf you get a hole-in-one, it's called an "Ace." \n\nWhat is the score for 6 under? \n\nPayne Stewart. \nor else,\n\ni don't know the certain joke you want but you can check these out \n\nhttp://www.badgolfer.com/departments/jokes/index.htm\n\nhttp://www.ifyougolf.com/Playingaround/\n\nhttp://www.jokefrog.com/joke/0718.shtml\n\nhttp://www.funnymail.com/sporgolf.html
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If it is a competition in the case of matchplay then the extra holes are decided before the match starts, should it be level after 18 and the shots are awarded exactly the same as the original 18 ie according to the stroke index of the hole. In the case of stroke play, then the back nine is counted if that is level then the back seven if that is also level then the back five and then three is taken into consideration, if this is also level it is usual to have either a sudden death or three hole play off, if it is still level after the three hole play off the the same three holes are played over and over until an out right winner is found.  If it's a friendly then be civilised after all it is golf your playing and just go to the bar and buy your opponent a beer and congratulate him on managing to stay even with you over 18 holes
1063990
I like many of the new rule changes. I absolutely love 4-on-4 during overtime. It opens the game up more. One rule I would like to see though is that a player's namemust have a minimum of 3 vowels, just so I can know how to pronounce it.
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Im not sure what your asking.\n\n18 golfers playing 3 at a time 18/3=6 teams.\nSo you have 6 teams.\n\n6 teams or 6 threesomes playing 12 holes or 12 rounds of golf.  What would you consider a round of golf? 9 holes or 18 holes.\n\nIt takes a 4some 5 hours to complete 18 holes.\nIt takes a 4some 2-1/2 hours to complete 9 holes.\nIt takes a 3some 4 hours to complete 18 holes.\nIt takes a 3some 2 hours to complete 9 holes.\nThis is assuming that they are not constantly waiting for people ahead of them.\n\nSo based on 3somes playing 18 holes, everybody could play twice a day, for 6 days to complete 12 games.\n\nMost people can't play that much golf at once.\nEven the pros only play 1 round a day for a maximum of 4 days in a row.
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I even went to the Historical Rules of Golf page and there was nothing about the # of clubs in the bag.  hmmmmmmmm.\nI don't know.\n\nHow Many Clubs are Allowed to be Carried in the Golf Bag?\nFourteen clubs are the maximum allowed in one player's bag. Any number below 14 is fine, but more than 14 is not.\nAlso, those 14 clubs cannot be changed during the course of one round. You must finish with the 14 you started with. (There are some exceptions in the case of a club breaking.)\n\nHowever, if you begin with fewer than 14, you may add clubs during a round as long as no delay is caused and as long as the club(s) added are not borrowed from another player.\n\nThe penalty for exceeding the 14-club rule in match play is a loss of hole for each hole played in violation of the rule, up to two holes lost.\n\nIn stroke play the penalty is two strokes for each hole played in violation of the rules, with a maximum of four strokes.
665874
There is a theory that links the modern word GOLF to the Scottish verb of GOULF (also gowf), which means "to strike or cuff." This theory would at least place the origin of the word with the people who invented the game. As for "striking or cuffing," an integral part of the game is, after all, hitting the ball.
907579
Golf has become the game of choice for business interested people today.  What other event could you do where you can talk openly with another person while waiting for the group ahead of you to clear the green?  Just because it is so widely played by so many people it has become common, not cliche', so enjoy your game and I hope you pick up the tab for anyone playing with you, how about a game next week?  Will you spot me 5 strokes?
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"Fore" is another word for "ahead" (think of a ship's fore and aft). Yelling "fore" is simply a shorter way to yell "watch out ahead" (or "watch out before"). It allows golfers to be forewarned, in other words. \n\nThe British Golf Museum cites an 1881 reference to "fore" in a golf book, establishing that the term was already in use at that early date (the USGA suggests the term may have been in use as early as the 1700s). The museum also surmises that the term evolved from "forecaddie."\n\nA forecaddie is a person who accompanies a group around the golf course, often going forward to be in a position to pinpoint the locations of the groups' shots. If a member of the group hit an errant shot, the thinking goes, they may have alerted the forecaddie by yelling out the term. \n\nIt was eventually shorted to just "fore."\nA popular theory is that the term has a military origin. In warfare of the 17th and 18th century (a time period when golf was really taking hold in Britain), infantry advanced in formation while artillery batteries fired from behind, over their heads. An artilleryman about to fire would yell "beware before," alerting nearby infantrymen to drop to the ground to avoid the shells screaming overhead.\n\nSo when golfers misfired and send their missiles - golf balls - screaming off target, "beware before" became shortened to "fore."\n\nThis is another term, however, whose exact origin can't be stated. It does originate, however, in the fact that "fore" means "ahead" and, used by a golfer, is a warning to those ahead.
450930
they either say strriiiiiiiiiike or yell something like haaaaaaa. they dont say "ball" for a strike, but sometimes they say it on a ball (usually in a normal voice) or they dont say anything at all.
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Blue 52 can mean anything - all kinds of audibles (play audibles, o-line blocking scheme, running back formation, etc...) or just be a fake audible. On my high school team the quarterback used to like to yell "blue 42" at the line of scrimmage just for effect. Our audibles changed every week so in this case who knows. Some teams might have blue 52 as an actual play, audible, or whatever. Part of a fake count to try to draw the defense offsides? who knows what it means.
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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!!!
70815
That is kind of amusing. This undoubtedly came about because there were some folks who understood "par" as a numerical goal but didn't know enough about golf to realize that being "below par" is a good thing!
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A golf course has 18 holes. Each hole is given a parr rating of 3, 4 or 5. Average course is 72. A pro should do the course in parr (72) or less. \n\nWhen you start playing golf you have an handycap of 28. So you get 28 extra stokes over the 18 holes. \n\nIf you played against a pro and you went round in 100 and they went round in 72 in would be a draw. If you did it in 99 or less you would win.\n\nHaving a handycap allows different rated players to play against each other.\n\nTo lower your handycap, you play 3 rounds of golf at a course and take the average score.\n\n1st game you do it in 98 ( 2 stokes below your expected of 100)\n2nd game you do it in 96 ( 4 stokes below)\n3rd game you do it in 98 again.\n\nyour average would be 97, which is 3 stokes below your handycap of 100. \n\nCourse 72 plus handycap of 28 = 100. now deduct the 3 stokes from your averaged score over your last 3 holes. Now giving you a handycap of 25.\n\nYou keep playing and try to reduce your handycap to as low as poss. The lower your handycap score the better golfer you become.
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All of this is from the website listed in the source. Go there for more info.\n\nIn 1890 Mr Hugh Rotherham Secretary of the Coventry Golf Club conceived the idea of standardising the number of shots at each hole that a good golfer should take, which he called the 'ground score.'  Dr Browne, Secretary of the Great Yarmouth Club, adopted the idea, and, with the assent of the club's golfers, this style of competition was introduced there for use in match play.  During one competition Mr CA Wellman (possibly Major Charles Wellman) exclaimed to Dr Browne that, "This player of yours is a regular Bogey man". This was probably a reference to the eponymous subject of an Edwardian music hall song "Hush! Hush! Hush! Here Comes the Bogey Man", which was popular at that time. So at Yarmouth and elsewhere the ground score became known as the Bogey score. \n\nPar is derived from the stock exchange term that a stock may be above or below its normal or 'par' figure. \n\n"Birdie", meaning a score of one stroke under Par on a given hole comes from the 19th century American slang term "bird", meaning anything excellent. \n\nEagle & Albatross are extensions of the bird theme.