4 Tips To Lower Your Golf Score

Having trouble improving your golf score and can’t lower your handicap?  Sometimes the simplest suggestion makes a world of difference in lowering your golf score and improving that handicap. Here’s a few simple tricks that will guarantee success on the golf course. Try to play or practice daily.  Walk to the backyard and swing your clubs for 15 [...]

Golfing Etiquette

Golf Etiquette is an important part of the game, and it’s vital that you know what to do and what not to do!   Here are a few simple rules to follow to optimize your enjoyment of your golf game and the other golfers on the course. The most important, of course, is quiet. Golfing requires lots [...]

Golf Hazards And Penalties

In order for a course to be a “good” course to play, it must challenge the golfer’s skill.  Therefore, golf hazards are built into every course, along with their attached penalties, of course. These include bunkers and water hazards which the golfer must overcome with as much skill as he or she can muster. A water hazard [...]

What Equipment Do I Need To Play Golf?

If you’ve decided to take up the game of golf, but don’t have a clue as to what equipment you’ll need, there is a Pro-Shop (run by a Golf Pro) at every golf course that sells just about anything you’ll need to outfit yourself. The most important thing, of course, is your Golf Clubs.  If [...]

The Two Basic Forms Of Golf

Prior to learning how to play golf myself, I always assumed that there was only one form of golf to play.  What we see on the televised professional golf tournaments fosters that opinion amongst those who have yet to learn and enjoy the game of golf. There are two basic forms of golf than can be played by [...]

The Popularity Of Golf And How It’s Grown

There are more than 30,000 golf courses in the world today and approximately half of them are in the United States.  Some countries with the most courses per capita are Scotland, New Zealand and, Australia, Republic Ireland, Canada, Wales, Sweden, and England. These countries all share English as a majority language, but the popularity of [...]

The History Of Golf

The modern golf game we play today originated in St. Andrews, Scotland in the 12th century and spread to become a worldwide favorite.  The origin of golf is unclear and open to debate.  The game of golf has changed and developed into one of the top sports in the United States. Scholars have documented resources to a form [...]

The Golf-Widow Survival Guide

Does the term “Golf Widow” ring a bell in your head?  If you don’t play the game of golf but your spouse or significant other is an avid fan, then that bell rings loudly! I love golf personally and share in the sentiment that the game helps me forget everything else in the world. There’s nothing [...]

How Does The Golf Handicap System Work?

Have you often heard about an exceptionally good amateur golfer with a great handicap?  What does that mean to the amateur player? Your handicap is a numerical measurement of a (amateur) golfer’s (most of us) ability to play golf over the entire course of 18 holes.  I’d be hard pressed and probably embarrassed to figure [...]