Now that you are checked in, warmed up, stretched out and ready to go you get in your golf cart (walking is for able-bodied extremists) and head to the starting point for your round if golf. 
• Front side -The typical course is broken into 2 segments: the front nine and the back nine. The front side includes holes 1-9. No rocket science here. The only difficulty is remembering where you were told to start by the always polite pro shop personnel , front side or back. You have a 50/50 chance of getting it right. Pretty good odds in my book.
• Back side – the opposite of the front side. Duh!! This is where holes 10-18 are found. If you happen to be playing a 27-hole course, none of this matters. There is no middle side. You’ll be instructed to go start on the ‘xyz’ course, as these types of golf courses come up with some very clever names for each set of nine holes. (e.g, red, white and blue courses; or east, west and south courses-where if you are directionally challenged you may never find your way to your starting point!!) Just kidding.
• Cart path - ideally this is where you drive your golf cart while on the course. Some courses don’t have these paved or graveled tracks to drive on so helter-skelter driving is the norm. The unfortunate part about cart paths is that most of us never hit our golf shots anywhere near the cart path. If the course you are on has a ‘cart path only’ rule (menaing your cart should never leave the path), you are going to feel like you are walking the course. Weren’t you trying not to do that in the first place?? There are rules/etiquette about where to drive the cart and where not to drive. We will cover this topic in our Golf Etiquette section later on. Oh joy!!
• Tee Box – this is the starting point for each hole on the course. You will find markers placed on these areas that tell you where you may stand to hit your first shot for that hole. To make things ‘fun’ there is more than one tee box at each hole. The ones furthest back are for the best golfers…or the he-men who think they should be playing on tour but can barely hit their first shot past the closest tee box to the hole. (That’s a whole other topic of conversation.) In general, you should play from the tee box that allows you to be challenged but not decimated by the length of the course from that set of tees. The rules provide that you are to start and finish playing from the same set of tees. The reality is if you are out for fun and want to change it up you can but don’t plan on using or counting that score for anything important! By the way…the forward set of tees is just that -FORWARD TEES. They are not to be classified as the LADIES TEES. I have seen enough men playing to know that many of them are better suited to use these forward tees than anything further back.
That’s enough for now. I am too tired of ranting to try to hit a shot to start this round of golf. We’ll pick up where we left off next time.
Please remember this is neither an all-inclusive nor a completely accurate golf glossary. It’s just golf as I see it. Your thoughts are always welcome at Ladies on the Tee Golf Blog at www.sherrytabb.com. Thanks for visiting.
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