Outline of golf

Summary

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to golf:

The MacDonald boys playing golf by 18th-century portrait painter Jeremiah Davison

Golf – 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 golf course using the fewest strokes.

What type of thing is golf? edit

 
Aerial view of a golf course

Golf can be described as all of the following:

Variations of golf edit

 
Miniature golf course in Bulltoftaparken in Malmö, Sweden
 
Snow golf

History of golf edit

 
The Repton Bridge on Stoke Park's Golf Course, opened in July 1909

History of golf

Golf course edit

 
Fairway bunkers at the Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Township, Michigan

Golf course

Golf courses around the world edit

Rules of golf edit

 
After a bunker shot, a player should rake the sand smooth again.

Rules of golf

Golf equipment edit

 
Golf clubs in a golf bag
 
Golf cart

Golf equipment

Game play edit

Golf culture edit

 
A golf caddie, 1790, by Lemuel Francis Abbott

Golf organizations edit

Golf competitions edit

Golf by country edit

 
Pebble Beach Golf Links

Media coverage of golf edit

Golf on US media edit

 
The Golf Channel focuses on live coverage of tournaments, as well as factual and instructional programming.
 
ABC golf commentator Chris Schenkel in 1964
 
Fox USGA commentator Greg Norman in 2013

Persons influential in golf edit

 
Tiger Woods in 2007

Terminology edit

See also edit

References edit

External links edit

  • The R&A, St Andrews
  • USGA: United States Golf Association
  • International Golf Federation (IGF)