by Brettany Shandel
http://www.abiggolf.com

Golf is one of the most popular games that is played on a large outdoor course with a series of 9 or 18 holes spaced far apart, the object being to propel a small, hard ball with the use of various clubs into each hole with as few strokes as possible.The ball is hit with the "stroke" of a golf club, and each stroke counts towards the end score. A stroke is the forward movement of the club makes and hit the ball, with the intention of moving the ball forward, but if a player stops his downswing voluntarily before the club head strikes the ball, he has not made a stroke.The origins of golf have often been speculated about. Some historians think there may be a tentative connection to a similar game played on frozen ponds in Holland, but this association isn't concrete. The first record of the game of golf being played as we know it today was in Scotland in the region around Edinburgh in the 15th Century. Many historians consider St. Andrews, Scotland to be the home of the oldest golf course where golf was played as early as
the 16th century. James VI of Scotland, who later became James I, imported golf to England in the 17th century.

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews, the cradle of golf, was founded in 1754. During the 1800s the gutta-percha ball, or "gutty," replaced the feather-filled ball that had been used for centuries. In 1860 the first British Open was played at Prestwick, Scotland. The competition was opened to both professionals and amateurs the following year. The first permanent golf club in North America, Canada's Royal Montreal Club, was founded in 1873.
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The Art of Sandbagging

In this short article, I’d like to analyze the feasibility of the net scores that are posted in “friendly” competitions. You know the scores I mean – the ones that result in certain “lucky” golfer winning all the money – again and again.
A handicap is a funny thing. Everyone wants a low handicap after a round has been played and while refreshments are being consumed in the clubhouse. Hey, a falling handicap is proof that improvement is being made. But everyone wants a high handicap as they stand at the first tee negotiating the “arrangements” for the day’s competition. That’s right “negotiating”. A handicap should NOT be an approximate value that is adjusted to suit the situation. A program like CaddieMasterPro should be used to compute an accurate value and negotiations should not be a part of the exercise.

But I’ll quit whining about sandbaggers just long enough to do some objective analysis of extremely “good” scores in the heat of competition. For evidence, I submit the following table compliments of the USGA.
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