Golf course
A golf course is where the game of golf is usually played. It is made up of a series of 'holes', each consisting of certain key areas. A teeing ground is used to start playing the hole. A Fairway is the area between the tee and the green, where the grass is kept short for ball play. The green (or putting green) is a closely mowed area of grass surrounding the hole.[1] It has a flagstick so the golfer can see the hole at longer distances. The hole itself has a diameter of 4¼ inches (108mm).[1] Other areas of a golf course are called hazards. These include sand hazards and water hazards.[2] Hazards are designed to make the game more challenging.
A standard round of golf consists of playing eighteen holes. Many golf courses are designed with eighteen holes.[3] Some, however, only have nine holes, and the course is played twice per round.
Golf Course Media
- Golf course Golfplatz Wittenbeck Mecklenburg Ostsee Baltic Sea Germany.jpg
Aerial view of a golf course (Golfplatz Wittenbeck at the Baltic Sea, Germany)
Typical doglegs. Left: "dogleg left". Right: "double dogleg"
- First Hole, Spur Valley Golf Course - panoramio.jpg
Fairway and rough, Spur Valley Golf Course, Radium Hot Springs, Canada
- OldHeadGolfLinks18thHole.jpg
The 18th hole at the Old Head Golf Links on the Old Head of Kinsale
- Flag at Spur Valley Golf Course - panoramio.jpg
Flagstick at Spur Valley Golf Course
- Ridgefieldgolfcourseholenumbertwelve.jpg
Water hazard, sand trap, and dense vegetation on the 13th hole at Ridgefield Golf Course, Connecticut
- Golf Range 02801r.JPG
Practice range with 43 tees (20 covered)
- Domburg golf aug 05 007.jpg
Domburgsche, a links course in the Netherlands
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bill Mallon; Randon Jerris, Historical Dictionary of Golf (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011), p. 238
- ↑ Forrest L. Richardson, Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey (New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 2002), p. 138
- ↑ "18 Hole Round". Scottish Golf History. 2014. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
