Where Can I Practise??

Where can I play ?

Golfers come in 2 categories :
1]Members of a Private golf club
2]Green fee / social players.
If you are a member of a golf club you pay a yearly fee which entitles you to full use of the course, clubhouse and practice facilities. You also have the opportunity to obtain an official Australian handicap and to compete in various local and nationwide competitions. If you are a green fee or social player, you can play golf on any of the public courses. In doing this you pay a fee at the pro shop prior to play. If you are a Green Fee / Social player you can't have an official handicap and therefore can't play in any official golf competitions. Many people begin by playing as a green fee player and then join a club when they feel confident in their ability or seek the challenge of regular competitions. However, joining a Private golf club can be difficult, as most have waiting lists and can be quite expensive in the first year. On top of your yearly
subscription, you must also pay a joining fee.

How, Where, Should? Question About GolF

How much should I practice ?

One of the most important rules of practice is that it must be regular. Ten minutes every day is far more beneficial than seventy minutes once a week.

How many clubs do I need to buy ?

The maximum amount of clubs you are allowed to use during a round of golf is fourteen. This sounds like a lot but most of these would be used in a normal round of golf. An alternative to a full set is a half set. Half sets consist of a wood, usually a 3 wood, 3,5,7,9 irons & a sand wedge. These are more than enough to get you started and you can always add the fill in clubs to complete your set at a later date. The downside of buying a half set and then buying the fill ins is the overall cost will be slightly more expensive than if you bought the complete set in one hit. When buying golf clubs (full , half sets or individual clubs) make sure they are custom fitted to suit your physical attributes. This is as important as getting your clothes to fit you. We believe this is so important to your golf, we absorb any cost of any alterations needed.

Do I need to buy golf shoes ?

Golf shoes have spikes made of either steel or rubber. These help you keep your footing and balance during the swing. When starting out you can get by with a pair of runners. Once you start playing in regularly you will find having a pair of golf shoes will certainly save you strokes from your score, particularly when there is some moisture on the grass. Rubber Spiked shoes tend to make you slip and slide in these conditions.

Start to Playing Golf

PRACTICE - The How and Where

What you learn during your golf tuition equates to about half of your improvement. The other half is practice. Without it your rate of improvement will be quite slow. There are four types of places you can practice your golf.
Firstly, you can purchase some plastic golf balls and them at home in your back yard. This is quite an effective way of practice especially in the early learning stages where you will be more concerned with training your muscles to repeat certain actions rather than ball flight.
Secondly, you can go to a golf range. At a golf range you can purchase a bucket of balls and hit them at your leisure from specially designed artificial grass mats. When you hit balls try to avoid the "machine gun method" of hitting balls. i.e. bang, bang, bang. It is a far better idea to hit the balls slowly, making sure you have several swings between hitting each ball. It is far better for you to hit 50 balls 3 times a week than it is to hit 150 balls in one practice session. One of the best aspects of using a golf range is that you don't have to pick up the balls when you have finished.
Thirdly, you can play on a Public golf course and use their practice putting green to improve your putting skills. Finally, if you join a private golf club you can use the practice facilities at that club. However, at most of these clubs you have to use your own practice golf balls and you must share the practice fairway with other golfers. This can be frustrating when picking up your balls at the end of your practice session.

Goff, gowf, golf, goif, gof, gowfe, gouff and golve??

Word of Golf....

There's many acronym for golf......and some people call it Gowt, Goif, Gof..etc..but now, everybody knows what is GOLF.....

There is no universally accepted derivation for the word 'golf.' One of the most common misconceptions is that the word GOLF is an acronym for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. This at least is definitely not true.

The first documented mention of the word 'golf' is in Edinburgh on 6th March 1457, when King James II banned ‘ye golf’, in an attempt to encourage archery practice, which was being neglected.

Before the creation of dictionaries, there was no standardised spelling of any given word. People wrote words phonetically. Goff, gowf, golf, goif, gof, gowfe, gouff and golve have all been found in documents in Scotland.

Most people believe the old word 'gowfe' was the most common term, pronounced 'gouf'. The Loudon Gowf Club maintains the tradition of this terminology.

A minority of people hold the view that golf is a purely Scottish term, derived from Scots words 'golf', 'golfand' and 'golfing', which mean 'to strike' as in 'to cuff'.

Golf....the Story

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Golf is a sport in which an individual player, using several types of clubs, has the ultimate objective of getting a ball into a hole in the fewest number of strokes possible. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed, standardised playing field or area; rather, the game is played on golf courses, each one of which has a unique design and consists of either 9 or 18 separate holes. Golf 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."

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews

The first game of golf for which records survive was played at Bruntsfield Links, in Edinburgh, Scotland, in A.D. 1456, recorded in the archives of the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society, now The Royal Burgess