Golf

Hi, my name is Zach. Today I am going to talk to you about the sport that I have been playing golf competitively since the age of 9 (I am currently 16), and that sport is golf. I will tell you all you need to know about golf!






What is golf?
Golf is a non-contact sport which is played on a golf course. People that play golf (golfers) use a variety of different clubs in an attempt to hit the golf ball into the hole. The goal of golf is to get the golf ball into the hole in the fewest strokes (shots) you can. It could take you one stroke or even twenty, it really depends on how you play the hole. Each golf course consists of the tee boxes at the start and the holes at the end. The tee box is usually marked to show the golfer where they are meant to take their first shot from. In between the tee box and the hole, there is a area of short grass called the fairway. Either side of the fairway is long areas of grass called the rough. Water can be added to the course as well as bunkers, which are sand-based areas placed around the course. These are used to try and make the golf course trickier for the competitors. The area surrounded by the hole is called the green. This part is very short grass which is used to try and putt the ball into the hole using a putter, which is a type of golf club. I will be talking about the different clubs in a different blog post. There is different names for different amounts such as strokes, depending on the 'par' of the hole. There is three types of pars, Par 3, Par 4 and Par 5. A par 3 is the shortest type of hole, the strokes are different for each type of par. On a par 3 hole, a 'hole in one' is one stroke, a 'birdie' is two strokes, a 'par' is three strokes, a 'bogey' is four strokes, a 'double bogey' is five strokes and a 'triple bogey' is six. The names of strokes end after 6 or 7 strokes, triple bogey is where the names end, after that they only say the amount of strokes it took them to complete the hole. For par 4s, it changes slightly from the way the par 3 scores work. Instead, you add one to every stroke (e.g A birdie, two strokes on a par 3, is 3 strokes on a par 4. A par, three strokes on a par 3, is four strokes on a par 4 and so on.)