Golf

Golf is the sport game in which the players are using several types of clubs and hits a ball into each hole on the golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes. The first game of golf was played at Bruntsfield links, in Edinburgh, Scotland in A.D. 1456. Now the golf has become the worldwide sport, with a golf course on the majority of countries. Golf equipment basically encompasses into various items that are used to play the sport of golf. Players usually carry many types of clubs during the game.

In this game, there are three types of club that is irons, woods and putters. Golf is played with in the area of land that is designated by a golf course. Each game of golf is based on a number of holes and each hole is classified by its par as well as, the par of a hole is determined by the tree-to-green distance. The typical length of the par-three whole ranges between 91 and 224 meters and the length of the par-four hole range between 225 and 434 meters.

A round is basically consists of 18 holes that are played in the order which is determined by the course layout. On a nine-hole course, a standard round consists of two successive nine hole round. The clubs of the golf game are divided into six types such as woods, irons, wedges, hybrid woods and putters. In the golf games, the players are sinking the small ball with the few strokes into consecutive holes and the hole is divided into three primary areas like a putting green area, Flat starting point and a fairway.

The course is between 5000 to 7000 yards in the length which consists of 18 holes and the shapes of the holes are like a cup. The actual size of the cup is 4.5 inch in diameter. Golf balls are made of woods that were replaced in the 17th century. Golf as we know it today originated from a game played on the eastern coast of Scotland in the Kingdom of Fife during the 15th century. Players would hit a pebble around a natural course of sand dunes, rabbit runs and tracks using a stick or primitive club.

During the mid-15th century, Scotland was preparing to defend itself against an English invasion. The population's enthusiastic pursuit of golf and soccer to the neglect of military training (archery primarily) caused the Scottish parliament of King James II to ban both sports in 1457. The ban was reaffirmed in 1470 and 1491 although people largely ignored it. Only in 1502 with the Treaty of Glasgow was the ban lifted with King James IV (James 1 of England) himself taking up the sport.