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The Game Of Golf

There is no shortage of variations on the concept and different ways to play golf even though it is considered quite a simple game.

The basic golf game is generally referred to as stroke play tournaments work using the stroke system, and it is the most widely-played version of the game. For every shot that you make over or under the par of each hole, you have one point either added or subtracted to your score in this game. For instance, if you take five shots and hole 1 is a par 4, then your score would be +1. If you take 3 shots if you move on to hole 2, a par 5, score an eagle, then your new score would be -1 which is one minus two. This means that you’re aiming to end up with a score far into the minus numbers, with the lowest score winning.

Heavy on maths and low on excitement is a stroke play due to the fact that it was designed for a large number of golfers playing at the same time. If playing head-to-head against a few friends is what you are doing, then playing for skins is far more interesting. With skins, the person who wins the most holes wins the match and the person with the lowest score on each hole wins the hole. Players pay a certain amount to enter the game and a share of the prize money being awarded to the winner of each hole because skins is often played for money.

For children, there are two alternative rule sets, pitch and putt and crazy golf. The more serious of the two which resembles a much smaller version of a normal golf course is the pitch and putt and here, the player only needs to take one shot onto the green and then putt the ball into the hole. In crazy golf, however, the green is the whole course, and each hole is littered with strange obstacles, often based around a theme. For a family on holiday, the game is fun but it will not turn your kids into pro golfers any time soon even though it might inspire them to take up real golf.

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