How the Game Is Played: Types of Golf

February 10, 2010 by admin  
Filed under Beginners Guide

Golf appears deceptively simple to outsiders. ‘Where’s the challenge,’ you might ask, ‘in knocking a ball around with a club?’  Ah, but it’s so much more than that!

We can get an inkling of the true challenge of the sport by looking at the “official definition” set out in “The Rules of Golf” published by the United States Golf Association:

“The Game of Golf consists in playing a