16 Facts About Golf courses

Par-3 Golf courses consist of nine or 18 holes all of which have a par of three strokes.

The first golf courses were based on the topography of sand dunes and dune slacks with a ground cover of grasses, exposed to the wind and sea.

Eighteen-hole Golf courses are traditionally broken down into a "front 9" and a "back 9".

Many other golf courses subsequently made the decision to change from Bermuda to bent grass when they observed increased business at courses that had already changed over.

Red Bridge Golf courses Course was the first course in North Carolina to utilize a special Bermuda called Mini Verde.

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Practice courses often consist of old holes of a previous design that are kept and maintained for practice purposes or as substitute holes if one or more holes become unplayable; a 21-hole golf course, for instance, will have three additional holes that can be used for practice or as substitutes for a flooded or otherwise damaged hole.

Traditional links Golf courses are often arranged with holes in pairs along the coastline; players would play "out" from the town through a series of holes to the furthest point of the course, and then would return "in" along the second set of holes.

Famous links courses include the Old Course at St Andrews, often described as the "Home of Golf", and Musselburgh Links, which is generally regarded as the first recorded golf course.

Links and links-style golf courses have been developed throughout the world, reproducing the broken, treeless terrain with deep bunkers of their Scottish prototypes.

Many older executive Golf courses have been upgraded "in-place" to 18 holes and a traditional par score, or the original course was sold for other development and new land was acquired and built into an 18-hole course.

Many of the courses opened during the golf booms in the late 19th and early 20th centuries are of this type.

Many golf courses are now irrigated with non-potable water and rainwater.

Golf courses course turf is an excellent filter for water and has been used in communities to cleanse grey water, such as incorporating them into bioswales.

Golf courses can be built on sandy areas along coasts, on abandoned farms, among strip mines and quarries, and in deserts and forests.

Residents of Great Guana Cay and Bimini, for example, are engaged in legal and political opposition to golf developments on their islands, for fear the golf courses will destroy the nutrient-poor balance on which their coral reef and mangrove systems depend.

In Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in arid regions, golf courses have been constructed on nothing more than oil-covered sand.