Informational Text: Golf
Golf, including the history of it, the equipment used, the rules in place, the tournaments held, and the etiquette during gameplay, is unique as a sport itself. To note, this isn’t about the code word for the letter g, but it is the actual sport. Golf is a game of precession and focus; your mental state influences the game very much. It is a game basically where you use a club to whack the ball into the hole. Golf is one of the most different sports out there.
Golf’s History Where is golf’s birthplace? Golf’s birthplace is on the eastern coast of Scotland in the Kingdom of Fife during the 15th century, approximately 1457. Later on, the king of Scotland, King James II, prohibited golf because it distracted people
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Golf equipment back then was hand-made, making it expensive. In 1848, metal club heads and shafts and gutta percha balls were selling so an average person was able to afford to play golf. This led to the growth of golf. In the 19th century, associations including the British Open and the USGA (United States Golf Association) held tournaments and researched more about golf. Golf was made a global sport when it was made an Olympic sport in 1900. For a few 100 years until now, technology advanced, so golf clubs and balls were modernized, causing more accurate ball flights with more yardage. During this period, many more associations including the PGA (Professional Golf Association) and the WPGA (Ladies PGA) were made.
Golf Equipment Unlike other sports, you need a lot more than a ball. You need the clubs, the golf bag, the tees, the ball marker, the balls, and the cleaning supplies. There are four types of clubs- the irons, the wedges, the hybrids, and the putters. For all of the categories except putters and wedges, the higher the number, the more loft the club has. The woods are used from a long distance to the hole. The 1-wood, so called the driver, is the least lofted of the woods and the ball goes the farthest with a swing from it. Irons have a higher loft than woods, allowing more precision on the fairway. The wedge’s purpose is to get the ball on the green in a short distance by
b. Some historians believe that it was the Scottish who invented golf. Although there are two different theories, European history of golf, and Ancient Asian history of golf.
There is general agreement that the Scots were the earliest of golf addicts but who actually invented the game is open to debate. We know that golf has existed for at least 500 years because James II of Scotland, in an Act of Parliament dated March 6, 1457, had golf and football banned because these sports were interfering too much with archery practice sorely needed by the loyal defenders of the Scottish realm! It has been suggested that bored shepherds tending flocks of sheep near St. Andrews became adept at hitting rounded stones into rabbits holes with their wooden crooks. And so a legend that persists to this day was born!
Texas A&M is a premier public university located in College Station, Texas. With land, sea, and space grants and 16 colleges, Texas A&M develops Aggies to become leaders and good citizens in various industries. Texas A&M constantly ranks in the top ten on various lists, including those complied by The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, New York Times,1 and Military Times.2 With active presences on seven social media sites,3 Texas A&M is positioning itself as a world class university with great students, former students, faculty, staff, and other related individuals. Texas A&M has a unique and notable reputation. By being
Golfing is a sport that many people enjoy taking part of. It used to be just a sport that older men enjoyed, but now, it is recognized as a sport for people of all ages and races. Men, women, and kids all enjoy the challenge that it presents because you not only have to learn the proper stance, but you have to learn the perfect golf swing.
The legendary beginnings of golf in the United States can be traced back to the mid-1600s. One of the first published
The only thing more challenging than life itself is golf. Many of the traits that the American people pride themselves on displaying are prevalent in golf. One area, in which the true American attitude is seen, is in the progression of golf. The American people are extremely evolutionary. The American people are always building new equipment, a trait seen everyday in golf. Throughout American history, tradition has been important, thus golf equipment has changed but always retains it key qualities. Finding the easiest and most efficient way to do something is also a major theme in American history. Through the changes made to the types of metals used in golf clubs. Also the changes to the golf
The United States is home to many different kinds of sports. The most complex sports with the most rules seem to be sports like football, hockey, basketball and soccer. Golf is a sport where most people think of as one of the simplest sports, the objective is get a small white ball in a hole. There’s no question about it, football and basketball both have a lot of rules that an average person wouldn’t know or understand. But, any person knows the goal of golf is to put the ball in the hole. There’s not teamwork or having to get through people, it is just a club, a ball, and you. The holes might differ and the number of hazards are different but it is the most straight forward sport there is. But, along with being very straight to the point, there are a lot of rules and different etiquettes that
There has been quite a lot of significant advancement in golfing history (golf ball, golf clubs) but the biggest and most significant advancement is the rules. The rules of golf has always been the same over the years with the rules being based around regulation, procedures and penalties. Before the rules of golf were made into a book for everyone that plays, golf clubs commonly had their own set of rules. Most of the rules made by other clubs were mostly the same but had some differences by removal of loose impediments (leaves and small stones).
For a sport that was once made for purely entertainment, it has come a long way to now, with current professional tournaments and competitive gameplay. Golf has also advanced more than just in how it is played and by who, it has drastically changed in technology as well. Golf is a sport that was created early on and has advanced exceedingly throughout the years with the involvement of technology in golf clubs and golf carts. First, golf is a sport that was created in Scotland early on in the 1500s for entertainment. It is unknown who created the sport itself, but it is
This new game that people were beginning to play in Scotland, seemed to take a hold of the people. At the time, the sport was open to all people- no fees to pay, no starting times- just a short game of golf that would always be followed by a trip to the local mead hall. Most golf played was on bets and times have not changed on that fact. Men would go and bet that they could beat the man next to them on the links, which at the time were only sandy, hilly pastures. It was because this game was at such a simple stage in its history; it required skill and finesse that almost all people could do. So, to meet the demand of the people, many courses were built along high bluffs on the eastern coastline in Scotland. It is here that nature developed dunes, ridges, gullies and hollows that would challenge the best of golfers.
It is unknown when the game of golf originated, but it is believed that people began playing in Europe during the middle ages. In the United States, golf was a sport primarily played by the wealthy individuals until tournaments began being televised. Since then, golf has grown to be a very lucrative industry with over 27 million golfers nationwide by the end of the 1990’s. “Competition in the Golf Equipment Industry,” a case study written by John E. Gamble of the University of South Alabama, is an overview of the problems currently facing major companies in the golf equipment industry: technological limitations (due to golf’s governing organizations), a decline in the number of golfers,
In most cases, there is a flat green path between the hole and the player, but there has yet to be a golfer proficient enough to utilize that fairway every time, requiring the player to cope with the treacherous obstacles that lie in wait for every errant shot.
For hundreds of years, golf has been an extremely popular and growing sport all around the world. Looking where golf is now, it is growing rapidly from the young to the elder population. The first round of gold was first played in the 15th century off the coast of Scotland, but it did not start to be played until around 1755. The standard rules of golf were written by a group of Edinburgh golfers. Today, people of the US, Scotland, and England, have been drawn to the game because it is fun, challenging, and hardly any athletic ability at all is required for amateurs. In breaking down the game, geometry plays a major
Along with his love for the game of golf, my dad also passed down his competitiveness to me. The game of golf stirs up more competition than most
We live in a big universe, where interaction occurs everywhere between everything one way another. All the drugs which human use have a side effect either a life threat effect or not even noticeable. At the same time, the medicine is one of the greatest things were discovered by human to treat disease. Therefore, every drug has a side effect on the human health. Marijuana is one of the drugs which people keep debating about its side effect. Therefore, most people have misunderstanding marijuana effects, some of my friends have told me “smoking marijuana is safer than smoking cigarette”. In this paper, I’m going to talk about some of the misunderstanding concepts about some drugs.