Getting Familiar with the golf environment.
The golf environment is one that is really quiet and very professional. Even the practice golf courses known as the driving ranges, are professional in their approach. The golf scene usually features many top tier and respected people with money. The strict dress code calls for males to ear collared shirts and if the choose shorts, they must be khaki Thereby, leading some to classify golf as a rich mans’ sport. Golfers pay close attention to what type of clothes and accessories they have on. They wear gloves, a good portion of them, to help grip the club and prevent blistering. Normally, only one glove is worn on the non dominant hand. The increased grip and control allows for harder swings to be made with increassed accuracy and control, and a longer distance. Unlike a basketball court or football fields, the golfing environment is usually very quiet and tailored for people to focus. The golf course is the main centerpiece of the golf environment. A golf course consists of a series of holes, each of which consists of a teeing ground, fairway, rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick and a cup. All of these materials are placed on the course intentionally in order to facilitate a round of golf. Because a standard round of golf has 18 holes, most golf holes choose to follow this strict model. However, some of them deviate and have 9 holes in order for the whole to be played twice a round. Additionally, for novelty and maintenance reasons, others may have 27 or 36 holes so that people can choose two groups of nine holes at a time for novelty and maintenance reasons. Many older golf courses, often coastal, are golf links, of a different style to others. For non-municipal courses, there is usually a golf club at each course. The golf course features a teeing ground, water hazard, rough, an area designated to be out of bounds, a sand bunker, a water hazard, fairway, putting green, flagstick, and a hole. The teeing ground is the name given to the first section of every hole. There is usually more than one available box for a player to place their ball, each one a different distance from the hole. The fairway is the area between the tee box and the putting green. The area between the fairway and the out of bounds markers and also between the fairway and the green is called the rough. The rough is the turf of which is cut higher than that of the fairway and is generally a disadvantageous area from which to hit. The hazards are the area that every golfer wants to avoid. Young up and coming players will soon be able to correlate hazard with failure. Hazards are divided into three types. The first type of hazard are water hazards such as lakes and rivers, the second is man made hazards such as bunkers and the third is natural hazards such as dense vegetation. Special rules apply to balls that fall in a hazard.
