How to calculate distance from the hole in golf?
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The other guys statement is correct, but he didn't really answer the question. The tour pros do have a great yardage book,  in fact most of them use a book specially designed for the course they're playing, not available to anyone except them. Then they have a pin sheet with the pin location for the entire week and their respective yardages on the green. \n\nHowever, even armed with all this information, you are correct, the yardages are still not exactly correct. \n\nBut you have to remember a golfer has to take many things into account when pulling a club, and this is a golfer at any level of play. For instance, I take these things into account when I pull a club:\n\n1) Lie - rough or fairway? Uphill, Downhill, Sidehill?\n2) Wind - Speed and Direction\n3) Temperature? Hot or cold?\n4) Is the green soft or hard?\n5) Do I need to hit the shot around an obstacle?\n6) Do I need to curve this shot to get to the pin?\n\nThese are just a few of the many things a golfer has to take into account when figuring out which club to hit, it's not just strictly yardage driven. Although yardage will give you a good baseline target to start your computations. \n\nRemember this, many people consider Ben Hogan the greatest ball striker and iron player of all time......he NEVER used a yardage book. That statement should tell you everything you need to know. \n\nHope this helps!
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Every player hits their clubs differently and with a little practice you learn how far each one will go.  Sometimes the conditions on the course, or obstacles, will cause you to use different clubs from the same distance.  For example, if I'm hitting into a headwind, the ball won't go as far so I might hit a club that normally would travel farther than the current distance I am from the hole (the opposite is true when you have a tailwind).  Also, if the course is wet, or if there's a tree in your way, you might want to hit the ball lower or higher also changing your club selection.  Pro golfers can usually hit the same distance with a number of different clubs (it takes a lot of practice!).
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Distance comes from clubhead speed and timing.  If you try to overswing, you will usually mess up your timing.\nHere's one key that will increase clubhead speed:  Hold out your right hand (if you are right-handed), palm up - then quickly flip it over to see the back of your hand.  This is the motion that occurs in your wrists as your hands move the clubhead through the hit zone.  The more quickly they flip, the more it adds to clubhead speed.  Go to the range and practice timing of this at 3/4 swing. The longer you hold back from turning your wrists over, the more snap you get as your hands go through the hit zone.  You will find that it is almost impossible for the wrists to go through too late.  Once you get the timing down, go to a full swing.  If I'm playing in front of you, please remember to wait until I'm out of range...\n\nAlso, considering all the money a golfer spends on greens fees and equipment.  A few tune-up lessons are not really that expensive in comparison and can add alot to your enjoyment of the game.
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place your ball exactly where it was and your buddy has to play his where it stops. i did that this year and my ball ended up in the hole.  what luck hey
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The handicap is an average of how many strokes over par you are. If shoot 83, 82, then 81 on a par 72 course, your handicap would be 10 because you average 10 strokes over par. Make sense? Holes are ranked as handicaps to determine the difficulty. #1 handicap being the most difficult and #18 the least. Hope this helps!
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In golf you are given (at each hole) a certain number of shots that you should need to get your ball from the tee to the hole. If you manage it in exactly that number of shots, it's a par....so say you were at the first tee and it said you had to take 5 shots to get the ball in the hole, so you hit the ball 5 times & got it in the hole...then you've got a par. But if you only take 4 shots to get it in the hole, then it's birdie because you're one under the par. And an eagle is 2 under the par...so you'd do it in 3.\nI hope that sort of makes sense...I'm rubbish at explaining things!!!
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Here ya go.\nhttp://marcoisland.org/golf.htm
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The best thing would be to see a professional golfer and he can advise you on how to improve your game. Yahoo's golf tips suggests selecting a target area and focussing on that. \n\n# Stand behind your ball on the tee and pick out a 10- to 15-yard landing area, then picture an imaginary line from that spot back to your ball.\n# As you address the ball, focus on an intermediate target a few feet in front of you. Align your ball square to that point, and don't worry about hazards, distant mountains or anything else.\n# Right before you pull the trigger, take one last look at your landing area. Take a cue from the Tour players, who by this point are only thinking about getting their ball to that spot.\n# Make a confident swing, knowing that you've done what it takes to line up the shot. Practice this on the range, and you'll be ready to conquer any intimidating visual tricks.\n\nThere are also plenty of training aids available see Yahoo directory.
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A golfer's handicap (or handicap index) is a numerical measure of a golfer's ability.  Very roughly, it's approxamately how many strokes above par a golfer typically shoots.  The United States Golf Association and the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews have differing ways of calculating handicaps.  The USGA calculation is primarily applied in the United States while the R&A calculation is mostly used by the rest of the world.  \n\nIn order to calculate a handicap, the USGA requires that you play a minimum of 5 rounds of golf.  The more you play, the more accurate your handicap will be because more rounds will be used in the calculation, but well address that later.\n\nFor each round of golf you play, you will calculate a handicap differential.  The handicap differential takes in account for the difficulty of the course(s) being played.  There are two factors that are considered.  The USGA Course Rating, which is the relative difficulty of the course for the scratch golfer (a golfer whose handicap is 0) and the Course Slope Rating, which is the relative difficulty for the bogey golfer compared to the Course Rating.  Both are usually found on the scorecard of the golf course but are also searchable through online databases too.\n\nThe formula for the handicap differential is the following:  (Adjusted Gross Score - USGA Course Rating) x 113 / slope rating.  \n\nAdjusted gross score is simply the score a player has after adjusting for maximum per-hole strokes according to Equitable Stroke Contol Guidelines.   Using ESC guidelines helps eliminate the effect of "disaster holes" by limiting the amount of strokes to counted on any given hole.  \n\nFor each round, you will calculate your handicap differential based on the above formula.  Now, here's where the number of rounds you have to use comes into play.  The more rounds you play, the more handicap differentials you are able to use towards your handicap.  The number of handicap differentials you use for to determine your handicap are dictated by this chart:\n\n5-6 rounds - use lowest 1\n7-8 rounds - use  lowest 2\n9-10 rounds - use lowest 3\n11-12 rounds - use lowest 4\n13-14 rounds - use lowest 5\n15-16 rounds - use lowest 6\n17 rounds - use lowest 7\n18 rounds - use lowest 8\n19 rounds - use lowest 9\n20+ rounds - use lowest 10 from the 20 most recent rounds\n\nNow, you can calculate your handicap index.  To do so, take the average of the number of handicap differentials you have used and multiply that average by .96 or 96%.  This 96% is called the bonus for excellence which is designed as an incentive for a player to lower his handicap by giving him a slightly lower handicap index.  Once you've applied your bonus for excellence, simply truncate (delete) all digits after the tenths digit.  Do not round up.  That number is your handicap.\n\nOther than an estimate of a golfer's skill, his handicap can be applied to certain events or tournaments.   On a course's scorecard, each hole has a handicap, 1-18.  The lower the handicap, the harder the hole.  When playing in a handicap event, if your handicap is higher than the hole's handicap, you are able to deduct a stroke from your score.  For instance a 10.2 handicap golfer will be able to deduct strokes from the holes with handicaps 1-10.  Or basically, they get -10 strokes for free.  \n\nThis system allows for a more level playing field among golfers of varying skills.  In essence, the golfers are not so much competing against each other, they are competing against what they normally score as well.  \n\nExample: a golfer with a 5.4 handicap shoots 79 competes against a 18.9 handicap who shoots a 89 on a par 72 course.  The 5 handicap golfer's net score is 79-5 = 74 (2 over par), while the 18 handicap golfer's net score 89-18 = 69 (1 under par).  Since the higher handicap golfer has a lower net score, they have defeated the lower handicap golfer in a handicap event.
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Enter your scores here and it does it for you:\n\nhttp://golf.sports.yahoo.com/tracker
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If your ball starts on target (i.e., where you are aiming) and then curves, the curve is likely due to the club-head not traveling in a straight line when it is striking the ball.  The simplest drill that I know to fix this is to get a long foam tube (like you use to bash your sister with at the beach) and place it about 2" outside of your ball and pointed at your target.  Then try to hit the golf ball without hitting the tube (tip: it will be really, really hard to do!)\n\nIf, however, your ball starts to the right of your target and then curves farther right, then you are hitting the ball with an open face.  This type of error is somewhat more easy to fix . . . usually by using a "stronger" grip (i.e., rolling the hands a little bit to the right on the grip).\n\nDisclaimer: I'm no golf teacher . . . just a guy who's been playing for about 38 years . . . $100 spent on 3 or 4 lessons would probably pay a much bigger benefit than any tip you will get here.\n\nGood luck!
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You hit your first shot on that hole into the hole.  You can go to www.playgolfamerica.com and they have a lot of information on term for people who want to learn about golf.
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Go here\n\nhttp://golf.sports.yahoo.com/tracker\n\nenter your scores....it calculates it for you.
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The USGA has issued guidelines \nThe current guidelines are these for men:\n\nPar 3 - Up to 250 yards\nPar 4 - 251 to 470 yards\nPar 5 - 471 yards to 690 yards\nPar 6 - 691 yards or more\n\nNow many holes may play longer or shorter than the posted yardage.  That is why they only have guidelines.  A lot of golf  courses have par 4's over 470 yards.
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Although Shepard fired off those two golf balls in moon gravity which is about one-sixth of earth's (moon fact sheet), they did not go miles and miles and miles. Shepard later appended his estimate to drive distances in the 200 to 400 yard range. Still, not bad with one hand and encumbered by a suit that prevented a good pivot on the swing. See the golf ball hit by Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, and the javelin tossed by Edgar D. Mitchell.
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It has 18 holes each holes have different distances from the previous ones. They each have different levels of difficulty based on the golf course.
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The scoring system for golf is actually very simple.\n\nEach hole on every course is given a "par" score..in other words the number of shots it should take you to get your ball from the tee to the hole. The par for a hole depends on its length and difficulty. \n\nA "bogie" is  the par score for a hole plus one..so if you take 5 shots on a par 4 hole, thats a bogie..and thats not good!\n\nA "birdie" is the par score for a hole minus one..so if you only take 3 shots on a par 4 hole, that's a birdie...and that's good!\n\nThe winner is the golfer who take the fewest shots to go round all 18 holes on a course.\n\nThe best way to learn is to play,  or just watch the big tournaments on the TV. You will soon pick it up.