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Golf

See the sub-links under this section for information about our Pro Shop (including Course Fees, Hire of Equipment, SocialvCourse Times and Tuition), Club Membership (download an application form), Tournaments and Competitions (Calendar, Fees & Results).

Some interesting Golf Facts:

Golf is a precision club-and-ball sport and it's unique in being the only ball game that does not require a standardized playing area. Instead, the game is played on widely varying golf "courses", each of which features a uniquely challenging design in response to the lie of the land, although standard courses typically consist of either nine or 18 holes.

Competing players (golfers), using many types of specialized clubs, attempt to hit balls into each of 9 or 18 holes laid out as a golf course, while employing the fewest number of strokes or shots to complete this task.

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."

Golf competition is also unique in that it is played for the lowest score or number of strokes by an individual, known simply as stroke play, or the lowest score on the most individual holes during a complete round by an individual or team, known as match play.

Golf is popular worldwide and in 2005, Golf Digest calculated that the countries with most golf courses per capita, starting with the best endowed were: Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Canada, Wales, United States, Sweden, and England (countries with fewer than 500,000 people were excluded). Apart from Sweden, all of these countries have English as the majority language, but the number of courses in new territories is increasing rapidly.

Numeric Term Specific term Definition
-4 Condor four strokes under par
-3 Albatross three strokes under par
-2 Eagle two strokes under par
-1 Birdie one stroke under par
E Par equal to par
+1 Bogey one stroke over par
+2 Double Bogey two strokes over par
+3 Triple Bogey three strokes over par
+4 Quadruple Bogey four strokes over par