| Learning to play golf can be a mind
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| | to four people who move around the course
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| boggling experience. It can seem like
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| | together, each person taking a turn to
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| you're learning a foreign language, with
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| | play his or her ball. You have to play
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| terms like bogies, eagles and birdies.
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| | the ball as it lies, except in unusual
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| The key is not to be intimidated, because
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| | circumstances when the rules allow for
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| once you get to grips with it, you won't
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| | the ball to be moved to a slightly better
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| want to stop playing.
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| | position.
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| The basic golf rules are the same for
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| | In stroke competition, the total number
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| both men and women. A player is allowed
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| | of strokes used to move the ball from the
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| to carry a selection of up to 14 clubs of
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| | tee to the hole is recorded as the
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| varying shapes, sizes, and lengths. A
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| | player's score for that individual hole.
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| golf course generally has 18 holes spread
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| | The winner is the player who uses the
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| over a landscaped area that normally
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| | fewest strokes to complete the course. In
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| includes a number of hazards, such as
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| | match play, scores are compared after
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| water, sand traps (also known as
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| | every hole, and a player wins, loses, or
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| bunkers), and trees. These are designed
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| | halves (ties) each hole.
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| to make the game more difficult. The
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| | As the game has developed, the courses
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| varying distances between the holes also
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| | have become more difficult to play. Saint
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| makes it more difficult.
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| | Andrews in Scotland and Augusta National
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| Play on each hole is begun at the tee
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| | in Georgia have some of the most famous
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| area, from which players "tee off" or
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| | and difficult courses.
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| "drive" the ball into the fairway. To
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| | If this has inspired you to take up golf,
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| complete a hole, the ball must be putted
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| | what better way to learn and consolidate
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| into the actual hole or "cup".
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| | your technique than by going on a golf
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| Golf is usually played in groups of two
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| | holiday?
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