The golf course may seem a fa-off-in-the-future
place, where you will not set foot for a long
time. But it is helpful to understand the layout
of the course to understand what you must learn.
When I teach I like to put the pieces of the
puzzle together as promptly as possible.
Understanding the golf course allows you a look
at the big picture, so you can figure out where
to put the pieces.


A regulation golf course consists of 18 holes.
There are generally three lengths of holes: par
3s, par 4s, and par 5s. The length or yardage of
the hole, which will be listed on your scorecard,
determines the par. The length or yardage of the
hole, which will be listed on your scorecard,
determines the par. For our purposes, a par 3 is
a short hole, a par 4 is a medium-length hole,
and a par 5 is a longer-length hole, which can
often look like an eternity to a new golfer.
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I remember playing a par 5 at Frenchman's Creek
and burying my tee shot into a cork tree. After
wedging the golf ball from out of the trunk, not
being happy, with my playing partner laughing at
me, I remeber looking up and realizing that I had
over 400 more yards to travel. This felt like a
five-mile-long par 5 at this point.


Par is the score that an expert golfer would
expect on a hole under normal weather conditions,
including two strokes on the putting green. So,
in other words, on a par 3 an expert golfer would
hit the ball onto the green in one shot, on a par
4 in two shots, and on a par 5 in three shots,
each allowing two puffs for the computation of
par.


Now, are you an expert golfer? It is probably
safe to assume no, due to the fact that you are
reading this book for beginners. So scoring par
would certainly be fun but is probably not a
reasonable expectation at this time, nor it is a
requirement for having fun.


The most important component of the golf course
is the hole, not to be confused with the cup. The
cup, a four-and-one-quarter-inch hole in the
green, is lined by a metal or hard plastic lining,
sunk, by mandate of the rules of golf, at least
one inch below the level of the green. The cup,
the ultimate objective of the player of each hole,
is marked by a flagstick, apole about six feet in
height, usually with a cloth flag attached.
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The goal of the game of golf is to advance the
ball with your golf clubs from the teeing area
provided on each hole to the putting green and
into the cup provided on each hole in as few
strokes as possible. There are 18 holes on a
regulation golf courses; therefore, you will
attempt to do this 18 times. So, in other words,
I have to teach you to get from here to there in
the fewest number of strokes possible.

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