Golf


 
 
Golf

:This article is about the sport of golf. For other meanings, see Golf (disambiguation).

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Golf is an outdoor sport where individual players or teams hit a small ball into a hole using various clubs. It is defined in the Rules of Golf as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."

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Golf originated in Scotland and has been played for several centuries in the British Isles and continuously in the United States since 1887 (Foxburg, Pennsylvania). Although often viewed as an elite pastime, golf is increasingly popular and continues to attract ever more players around the world.

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Sport: A sport consists of a physical activity or skill carried out with a recreational purpose: for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of a skill, or some combination of these. A sport has physical activity, side by side competition, and a scoring system. The differ...

Golf (disambiguation): Golf is a sport where players hit a small ball into a hole using various clubs....

Ball: A ball is a round object that is used most often in sports and games. Balls are usually hollow and spherical but can be other shapes, such as ovoid (only in a few special cases) or solid (as in billiards) and flat (as in ice hockey). In most games using balls, the play of the game follows the state...


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Introduction
Anatomy of a golf course
Play of the game
Handicap systems
Golf rules and other regulations
Golf course architecture and design
Hitting a golf ball
Equipment
History
Social aspects of golf
Golfing countries
Professional golf
Environmental impact
See also
External links
 
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