Golf is a sport in which a player, using several types of clubs, hits a ball into each burrow on the golf policy in the lowest possible number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball sport that does not end a standardised playing area; rather, the disposed is played on golf "courses," each one of which has a unique design and typically consists of either 9 or 18 detached 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."
A golf ball coterminous to a hole
A golf ball meeting to a hole
The first interested of golf for which paper survive was played at Bruntsfield Links, in Edinburgh, Scotland, in A.D. 1456, recorded in the archives of the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society, now The Grandiose Burgess Golfing Society. Golf bomb become a worldwide sport, with golf courses in the majority of countries.
People such as Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Annika Sorenstam have become well recognised sports figures across the world. Sponsorship has also become a immeasurable department of the sport and players often earn besides from their sponsorship contracts than they do from the sport itself.