Golf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players (golfers), using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area. Instead, the game is played on golf "courses", each of which features a unique design, although courses typically consist of either nine or 18 holes. Golf is defined, in the rules of golf, as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules." Golf competition is generally played for the lowest number of strokes by an individual, known simply as stroke play, or the lowest score on the most individual holes during a complete round by an individual or team, known as match play.

A golf course consists of a series of holes, each with a teeing area that is set off by two markers showing the bounds of the legal tee area, fairway, rough and other hazards, and the putting green surrounded by the fringe with the pin (flagstick) and cup. Different levels of grass are varied to increase difficulty, or to allow for putting in the case of the green. While many holes are designed with a direct line-of-sight from the tee-off point to the green, some of the holes may bend, either to the left or to the right. This is called a "dogleg", in reference to a dog's knee. The hole is called a "dogleg left" if the hole angles leftwards and vice versa; sometimes, a hole's direction can bend twice and is called a "double dogleg". A typical golf course consists of 18 holes but nine hole courses are common and can be played twice through for 18 holes.

Early Scottish golf courses were primarily laid out on links land, soil covered sand dunes directly inland from beaches This gave rise to the term golf links, particularly applied to seaside courses and those built on naturally sandy soil inland.

 What I thought when I was invited to a local golf course that It is sort of a odd garden where artificial water pond,slopy and tapered lush  green surface was created. What type of sport these gentlemen are likely to play. I was asked to accompany a reputed player and he made me walk long  long distance after he has hit  the ball in air ,where to I had no clue. Now the so called player was putting it in a hole with a long stick. So much FUSS for this. But when you think of famous players,I thought I was wrong.

What the hell I have to do ,I am not playing but surely I knew the player I was accompanying and was who boasting so much is not going to win. THAT IS WHERE I COME INTO.The tournament winner. Who could be out of many competing.ASK ME AND I WILL TELL YOU.

A NOMINAL FEE OF COURSE.