Nov

Irreverent Golf Glossary – Golf Courses

Now that we’ve defined the game of golf, let’s talk about the different types of golf courses that are available in almost every community.

Golf Courses – plots of land where people go to play the game of golf. There are different types of golf courses in different lengths, shapes and difficulties. I would have to say that not every golf course can be considered friendly. However, they certainly are “slices of heaven” in that they are escapes from the doldrums and stresses of every day life.

Playing Miniature Golf

• Putt-Putt a.k.a Miniature Golf - a great training ground for newbies and a great ‘dating’ destination. The golf purists would not dare include this in their glossary. But the fact of the matter is, if you can navigate the windmills, the clown faces, the raging volcanoes, the tunnels over and under the water hazards and all the twists and turns that you will face while playing miniature golf, a real golf course will be a breeze. Not really, but they are fun places to try your hand at putting (a term we will define later) or go out on ‘let me show you how talented I am’ date.

• Par-3 course – shorter than average golf course that you think would be easier to play than the longer course. Okay, that’s totally wrong. On this type of course, you typically will have only nine holes to play and on most of these holes it should only take you three strokes to get the ball from the tee box to the cup. Hence the ‘par 3′ name. How clever is that? The only problem is, if you can actually get the ball in the hole in three shots or less on a regular basis you really shouldn’t be playing this course. You are way too good! You need to move on up to the next big adventure.

• Executive Golf Course – so as not to confuse you, you don’t have to be an executive to play on this type of course. It’s kind of a hybrid golf course, longer than the par three course, but shorter than a regulation course. Guess back in the day when ‘executives’ only had a short period of time to play this is where they would go. There aren’t as many of these type courses around as you might think but they are a very good place to go as a step up from the par three course. Do executives now have more time on their hands??? Most of the time an executive course will have 18 holes (which is the normal number of holes for a round of golf) and they are typically longer in distance and therefore, more challenging. Translation…a lot more opportunities for trouble, I mean, scenic.

• Regulation Golf Course – is where the ‘real’ golf is played. There are literally thousands of golf courses all over the world that are considered to be regulation courses. These are18-hole courses and this is where the real fun begins! These are the beauties that you see on TV and in your local area…from hallowed grounds to mountain goat tracts. There are a lot of components to the golf course and in my next article I will start defining all of those parts.

Stay tuned for the next edition of Ladies on the Tee Golf Blog presented by Sherry Tabb. If you’d like to offer your own definition of any of the terms included in our irreverent golf glossary, please add your comments below. Thanks for visiting www.SherryTabb.com.

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