18 Facts About Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping with the varied terrains encountered on different courses is a key part of the game.

Golf is played for the lowest number of strokes by an individual, known as stroke play, or the lowest score on the most individual holes in a complete round by an individual or team, known as match play.

Golf clubs have traditionally been arranged into three basic types.

Golf balls are spherical, usually white, and minutely pock-marked by dimples that decrease aerodynamic drag by increasing air turbulence around the ball in motion, which delays "boundary layer" separation and reduces the drag-inducing "wake" behind the ball, thereby allowing the ball to fly farther.

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Golf bag is used to transport golf clubs and the player's other or personal equipment.

Golf bags have several pockets designed for carrying equipment and supplies such as tees, balls, and gloves.

Golf swing is outwardly similar to many other motions involving swinging a tool or playing implement, such as an axe or a baseball bat.

Golf stroke uses the muscles of the core, hamstring, shoulder, and wrist.

In 2005 Golf Digest calculated that the countries with most golf courses per capita, in order, were: Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, Canada, Wales, United States, Sweden, and England .

Golf played one more amateur year in 1961, winning that year's U S Amateur Championship, before turning pro in 1962.

Golf instruction involves the teaching and learning of the game of golf.

All men's tours that are Federation members, except the India tour, offer points in the Official World Golf Ranking to players who place sufficiently high in their events.

Golf is unique in having lucrative competition for older players.

Golf was featured in the Summer Olympic Games official programme in 1900 and 1904.

The International Golf Federation is recognised by the International Olympic Committee as the world governing body for golf.

Four years later, in 1895, The U S Golf Association held the first Women's Amateur Championship tournament.

Golf's was able to prove herself on the course, going on to become the first American to win the British Women's Amateur title in 1947.