Golf Handicap 2

Some people like to debate whether or not golf is a “real” sport. I think it’s safe to say that most of us do consider it a sport. It may not be as rigorous as football or as demanding as running, but it does require physical skills and it involves competition. Sounds like a sport to me.

As with any sport, practice is of the utmost importance. Practice right to play right. We’ve all heard the cliches. Practice makes perfect. Have you found that despite all the time spend practicing your golf swing, you just can’t seem to improve much? Do you have nearly perfect form but you feel like your game’s become stagnant?

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Your golf handicap is calculated with a formula that averages how a player should be able to play better than par.

There are two slightly different ways to calculate your handicap which I detail below.

A wide spread belief amongst golfers is that a player’s handicap is their average score, when in fact your golf handicap is only the potential of your game. Most golfers play their handicap 25% of the time which is know as playing your “average best”. So in a large, handicapped competition, the golfer who shoots the best with respect to his or her abilities and the normal variations of the score should win.

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Well, who actually did invent the game of Golf? The question has been asked and argued for many years with no true winner. Many countries have a valid claim to an early game that resembles the game of golf. Some of the countries that make this claim are England. Scotland, China, Rome, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Laos. The most heated debate over who invented golf definitely comes from Great Britain and Scotland.

The first area to look when deciding the answer to our question must be what actually determines when a game with sticks and balls is golf or another game. Most countries in the world have had games where you hit an object with a stick at

some sort of target. Is this enough to be called golf, I don t think so. If so, then these early games could claim the origin of many sports played today. I think it takes more than just a game with some kind of object being hit by a stick to qualify as the origin of golf.

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When you play a round of golf, your gross score is recorded (the number of strokes you have taken on every hole) and then if necessary you reduce your score on any hole where you took more than two shots above par, to a double bogey or two shots above par (e.g. you score 7 on a par 4, reduce it to 6) - this new score is your gross adjusted score. When this adjusted score is totalled it will give you the number of shots played during the round to be used in calculating your handicap. The par for the course is deducted from your total gross adjusted score (GAS). This will be repeated for all the three

cards submitted to calculate your handicap for your handicap certificate. To obtain your handicap the average difference from all three gross adjusted scores (GAS) and par are calculated.

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Volume 1, Issue 1

Introduction.

An unwritten cardinal rule in the game of Golf is NEVER provide
unsolicited advice to someone regarding their Golf swing. So I
won t.

However, what I will do over the course of this monthly
newsletter is provide you with useful information regarding the
game, techniques, equipment, technology, and related physics of
Golf.

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