Golf
This article is about the sport. For other uses, see Golf (disambiguation).
A golfer in the finishing position after taking a "tee shot"
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| Highest governing body | R&A USGA International Golf Federation |
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| First played | 15th century, Scotland |
| Characteristics | |
| Contact | No |
| Categorization | Outdoor |
| Equipment | Golf clubs, golf ball |
| Olympic | 1900, 1904, 2016,[1] 2020[2] |
Golf is a precision club and ball sport in which competing players (or golfers) use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course using the fewest number of strokes. 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."
It is one of the few ball games that do not require a standardized playing area. Instead, the game is played on a golf course,
in general consisting of an arranged progression of either 9 or 18
"holes." Each hole on the course must contain a "tee box" to start from,
and a "putting green" containing the actual hole. There are various
other standardized forms of terrain in between, such as the fairway,
rough, and hazards, but each hole on a course, and indeed among
virtually all courses, is unique in its specific layout and arrangement.
Golf competition is generally played for the lowest 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.
Stroke play is the most commonly seen format at virtually all levels of
play, although variations of match play, such as "skins" games, are
also seen in televised events. Other forms of scoring also exist.
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