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Who needs complex explanation when you can learn golf with humor. Here are some of the most common golf terminologies to learn before you step in the course.

Sand Trap

A deep depression filled with sand filled with golfers in a deep depression.

Sclaff

Onomatopoetic Scottish word for a flubbed shot in which the ground is contacted before the ball is hit. The game’s Celtic inventors had plenty of time to develop a rich vocabulary for golfing mishaps, such as a ball topped lightly into the water, a ball hit a short distance through dense grass, straight into the air, into the word, into rocks and into other players.

Short Game

The short shots played around the green and the cheap shots taken between the green and the next tee.

Skull

To hot too far under the ball, causing a high, ballooning shot. You might try using your hands to open up the clubface a bit.

Slice

To hit the ball with too open a clubface. You might try closing it up a little.

Smother

To hit the ball with too closed a clubface. You might try opening it back up and hitting more on the upper part of the ball.

Sock

To hit someone under the chin or on the lower part of the face with a closed hand driven by a fast, upward-sweeping movement of the arm.

Spin

Professional golfers and other accomplished players can apply a variety of spins to the ball to make it curve around obstacles, turn in to the wind or stop dead where it lands. These shots take skill and practice, but most beginners have a bag of tricks, too! For example, even the rankest of amateurs can amaze their playing companions and themselves by making a ball run right across the center of the hole without going in, rise straight up into the air, execute unbelievably sharp left or right turns, travel sideways or even backwards or disappear entirely.

Score

The total number of strokes needed to complete 18 holes or three times the caddy’s tip, whichever is closest to 75.

Scorecard

A piece of paper on which a player’s opening offer is written prior to the commencement of serious negotiations.

Scratch Player

A player with a handicap of zero; a par golfer; a rat; a louse; a stinker.

Senior

A golfer who attributes poor play to the fact that he or she lacks the physique of a younger player.

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A coalition of community groups, labour organizations and neighbourhood activists will appear before city councillors on Tuesday to request public consultations about the possible sale or lease of financially troubled city golf courses.

In October, the city put out an expression of interest to see if anyone wants to purchase or take over the long-term leases of seven city-owned golf courses, including the Canoe Club, Crescent Drive, Harbour View, John Blumberg, Kildonan Park, Tuxedo and Windsor Park golf courses.

The move came several months after city auditors discovered the courses have racked up large debt and suggested Winnipeg sell some of its courses or convert them into parks.

Environmental group Save our Seine has voiced concerns Winnipeg plans to sell these properties without public input. The group circulated a petition, asking to be included in the development process.

Fort Rouge Coun. Jenny Gerbasi said the process has been “terribly mishandled” and Winnipeg should have conducted public consultations before it put out an expression of interest to developers.

“Green space is a long-term asset to our city. It should not be sold for quick cash to operate our community centres or anything else we need money for,” she said.

At last week’s city centre community committee, Gerbasi and Coun. John Orlikow (River Heights) voted in favour of a thorough public consultation process for alternative options for golf courses.

Council’s property and development committee, a more powerful body, will consider the plan at a meeting on Tuesday. As of Friday, 20 groups had registered to appear before the committee.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/groups-seek-input-on-city-golf-courses-139145729.html

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Here’s another list of common golf terms you shouldn’t missed.

R&A

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, founded in 1754 and the oldest golf club existence. As such it holds many “firsts” in the game of golf: first accusation of an altered scorecard (1754); first disqualification for use of improper equipment (1754); first suspension for profanity (1754); first caddy fired for accepting a bribe (1754); first expulsion for throwing clubs (1754);first properly replaced divot (1897); first twosome permitted to play through (1924); first totally restored bunker surface following the play of a sand shot (1946); first completely honest handicap claim (1957); and first lost ball recovered by a following golfer and returned to its rightful owner (1984).

Reading the Green

Since greens are rarely level and their surfaces vary in smoothness or “speed” depending on how moist the grass is and how recently it was cut, golfers must examine them closely to determine which way and how far the ball will roll. Even the “friendliest”- looking green will have some tricks up its sleeve, and many are downright ornery. Thus the “message” of any given green,as read by the well trained eye of the seasoned player, can range from “Aim a little to the left” or “Look out- anything more than a light tap will run right by the hole” to “The best thing you can do with that putter is make it into a decorative lamp base” or “You’ll be lucky to four-putt, and by the way, those are absolutely the ugliest panys I have ever seen.”

Recovery Shot

Any shot whose primary purpose is to get the ball out of a hazard or away from an obstacle and back into playable position on the fairway. The most important thing to remember when playing recovery shots is not to be greedy. It’s far easier to forget to include in your score a single short shot that put the ball into the middle of the fairway than to try to get away without counting half-dozen duffs, caroms or ricochets.

Relaxation

In golf, perhaps more than in any other game, relaxation is essential. Any tension in a player’s body is instantly transferred to the swing or the putting motion and the results are invariably disastrous. Even a slightly taut muscle can misdirect the path of the club head, sending an expansive ball into the water. An unnecessarily stiffened joint can lead to the kind of jarring, ground-hitting stroke that caused cumulative shaft-related damage to costly clubs and can lead to possible bone injury as well. And an overly rigid grip could, paradoxically, cause a muscular twitch that might allow the club to slip from the fingers during the follow-through, perhaps maiming another player and triggering a multimillion-dollar lawsuit. So for goodness sake, try to relax.

Rim

The edge of the hole. A ball that goes around the cup without falling in is said to have rimmed the hole or to have ringed, skirted, lipped, lapped or looped it. It may also be said to have curled, circled or rolled around it, or to have done a tour, a circuit, a round trip, an orbit or a buttonhook. There are one or two terms for a ball actually going into the cup, but they are used so seldom that it seems like a waste of space to include them here.

Rough

Unmown, naturally wild area bordering the fairway and sometimes separating the fairway from the tee. There are three basic types of rough: low rough, a narrow strip of 6 inch-high grass where the ball may be easily playable; high or deep rough, where the ball may be easily playable; high or deep rough, where the ball may be lost and even if found, may be obstructed or otherwise unplayable; and dark rough, where the ball may be eaten or stolen and used as an object of worship by primitive peoples.

Round

Eighteen holes of golf, played in their proper sequence, followed by one or more additional rounds at the 19th hole.

Rub of the Green

A phrase used in the rules of golf to describe a situation in which the flight of a ball is interrupted by anything other than other player in the match is continued and the ball is played from wherever it lands unless “whatever accidentally stopped or deflected the ball rattles, hisses, spits, growls or snarls; or stings, bites or drools; or makes menacing gestures or motions or circles or makes ready to pounce; or has claws, fangs, a gun, a badge or a lawyer.”

Rules

As currently constituted, the rules of golf consist of 34 basic regulations. The present record for breaking them in a single 18-hole round is an astonishing 31, with 69 penalty strokes, set in 1983 by H.B. Nichols at Bluster Bluffs C.C. in Smug Harbor, Long Island.

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Cross-country skiers in the Wildwood area have tried to keep it a secret for roughly 20 years now.
Sorry, folks — the cat’s out of the bag.

The cross-country ski track in the Wildwood Trails system is a 4.5-kilometre groove that winds through the Wildewood Club golf course, along the Red River and right up to the fields of St. John’s-Ravenscourt school. The idea for the ski track came about as residents wanted the opportunity to step off their front porch and into some outdoor winter activity.

“It’s a little pocket of people who enjoy being able to just walk down the street and go for a little ski,” said Harvey Peltz, one of the volunteers with the Wildwood Park Community Centre (WPCC). “I know we get a lot of people who now drive to our trails. You often see vehicles lined up along the streets at points of the day.”

There are three main trailheads available for people to jump into the track. The Wildewood Club (North Drive at Netley Street) has plenty of parking available for visitors, or interested skiers can get onto the tracks via the Netley and Oakenwald Avenue entrance or at the corner of Oakenwald and North Drive, near the WPCC.

Street parking is available at those two spots, as well, providing a easy setup for those looking to get a quick cardio workout in during the lunch hour.

“It’s really close — a 10-minute drive for me,” said Rose Ringor, right before she set off for an afternoon ski. “And for me, being a beginner, it’s a pretty easy trail. There are some people who are really good and have probably been coming here for years, but it’s not intimidating here. I like that.”

Three different groups organize the trail each winter. The Wildewood Club provides the golf course as the anchor stretch of track, while the WPCC and St. John’s-Ravenscourt help foot the grooming bill (the Cross Country Ski Association of Manitoba cuts the trail for the group). Most of the costs are covered through user generosity; envelopes can be picked up along the trail and sent in to the WPCC.

Last winter, one that had a lot more snow than this current season, the community centre received $3,000 in donations from 64 different people, a sum that ate up a nice chunk of the $4,200 tracking bill.

The walking trial, which winds up and down the banks of the river, was added three or four years ago, Peltz said. It came not from a demand but more of a necessity for the ski population, as over the years volunteers found some people liked walking their dogs along the trails, unintentionally ruining the track for those looking to glide.

That is a big deal for some skiers.

“People actually respect the ski trails here,” said skier Ron Simonite. “It’s really annoying when they do that (allow dogs on trails). I used to go to another place, but it just got so bad I had to go somewhere else. That’s why this place is nice with the separate trails.”

Dropping In is a ‘random act of journalism’ that starts with a thumbtack on a city map and ends with a story from the street

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/put-on-the-skis-hit-the-golf-course-138381959.html

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New on golf? Here’s another set of terms to get by with the sport.

Pro

Sensible person who believes that individuals who spend time playing golf professionally are no different from those who engage in some other similarly demanding occupation such as strip mining or demolition work and that, far from paying for the privilege, they should actually receive financial compensation for their labors.

Pro Shop

Challenging hazard located just before the first tee at most country clubs. The trick to getting out in under $10 is concentration. Don’t be distracted by the leather golf bags and matched club sets, the radical new putter designs, the smooth gloves, the shiny shoes, and the sporty golfing attire. Keep your head down and your eyes on the balls and tees. Tell yourself that your present clubs aren’t old- they’re classics. Every item of apparel you’re wearing brings you luck. Your shoes are perfectly broken in. Your hat has character. Your glove…Forget your glove. Take a firm stance and dig in your heels. Get a good grip on your wallet. Take it out in a fast, sweeping motion and lightly flip a few crisp bills onto the counter. Always, use cash: “charging” is one of the hardest golf habits to break, and those few little pen strokes can end up costing you plenty. Pick up your purchase with a quick snap of the wrist, then turn and stride confidently for the tee. You may shoot 100 today, but you’re way, way ahead of the game!

Pull

To hit a shot straight but to the left of the intended target.

Push

To hit a shot straight but to the right of the intended target.

Putt

To hit a shot straight but to the left, the right, beyond, short of, over or around the intended target.

Putter

Specialized club used on the green. The putter differs from the other golf clubs in the bag in that it always produces shots that roll forward a few feet and stop.

Quoits

Along with curling, racing in luges and tossing the caber the only game other than golf that has been voted Most Pointless Athletic Pursuit of the Decade more than three times by the editors of Stupid Sports Magazine.

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Responsibility 

A player has several responsibilities when he or she plays in either matchplay or strokeplay competition. The player has the responsibility for knowing the conditions under which the competition is being held and for declaring the handicap under which he or she will play.

In strokeplay, the player is entirely responsible for making sure that his or her correct handicap is recorded on the card before it is handed in. Furthermore, a player must not offer advice to any player, except for a fellow team member. The player has full responsibility for the correctness of his or her score on every hole. Disqualification will result if the player returns a card with a score marked lower than when was actually taken, for any hole.

If the card has a score higher than taken, the score marked down will stand— as the Argentinian Roberto de Vicenzo found to his cost in the US Masters in 1968. A player must also play without undue delay, and bad weather is not necessarily a reason for discontinuing play. However, at the first sign of ligthning, players are strongly advised to put their clubs away and seek safe shelter.

Etiquette 

On every score-sheet distributed to spectators at the Masters at the Augusta National, there is a message from its founder, the great Bobby Jones: “In golf, customes of etiquette and decorum are just as important as rules governing play.”

Golf has always been revered for its insistence on the highest standards of behavior, despite the fact that the vast array of accepted conventions have never actually been set down in the same way as the rules. How we behave and treat other golfers— simply etiquette— is as important as how we play. It is the application of good manners and courtesy to others on the course.

The Rules of Golf do not spell out penalties for breacjes of etiquette; there is no two-shot penalty for those who digress. Etiquette us a voluntary code. It has evolved over the years into an essential element in making golf different from other sports that rely on a referee or umpire to enforce rules and behavior.

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The official book, The Rules of Golf including thet Rule of Amateur Status is published by the R & A and the USGA. It is divided into three sections: Etiquette, Definitions, and The Rules of Play. In the 1995 Code there were 34 rules subdivided into more than 120 clauses— many of which also have subdivisions. Golf’s rule book is therefore a comprehensive and complex publication, and it is not within the scope of this book to publish the rules of golf in full.

However, ignorance or lack of understanding of the rules can lead to penalty strokes ruining even the hottest round of golf, and there are certain areas that seem to repeatedly confuse even the game’s top performers. It is to these that we address ourselves in this section. It is every player’s responsibility to know and understand the rules and procedures of the game. Copies of the Rules of Golf are geneally available to all golfers free of charge through golf clubs and other sources— and every player is well advised to carry a copy whenever out on the course. Where disputes cannot be settled by reference to the Rules of Golf or with the assistance of the club’s golf professional, rulings an incidents should be called for from the organizing committee in the case of a competition or from R&A or USGA.

There have been many instances where the book have played a major part in the outcome of a professional tournament.  Through it we learn about not only the rule in question but also the one fundamental rule in golf not contained in the book— the need for constant vigilance in understanding and complying with the laws of the game. As in other walks of life, ignorance of the law cannot be offered as an excuse for its contravention.

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Here’s another list of common terminologies often used in Golf. Learn and enjoy the humor.

Halve

In match play, to tie a hole. Thus, if player A and player B both have a 5 on the 14th hole, they have “halved” the hole. Incidentally, that phrase is pronounced “they have haved” because the “l” in “halve” is silent, a fascinating fact that player A may want to discuss with player B during the latter’s backswing on the 15th tee.

Handicap

An allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

Hazard

A man-made obstacle on the course, either a bunker or a water hazard. It is against the rules for players to “ground” their clubs in a hazard, i.e., to allow the clubhead to touch the sand or water before making their shots. They may, however, bury their own head in their hands, strike their forehead with the base of their palms, shake their head vigorously from the side to side and if it does not delay the match, lightly and repeatedly tap their head against a tree.

Head

The end of the club that produces bollixes and mis-hits as opposed to the end of the club that produces calluses and blisters.

Hickory

Tough, resilient wood originally used for golf club shafts. The chromed steel tubing employed today has superior strength and durability, but old-time golfers insist that there is nothing more satisfying than the crisp snap of a hickory-shafted club being broken sharply across the knee or the delicate aroma of an entire set of clubs burning merrily in a fireplace.

Hole

To hit the ball into the hole, as in “I holed my putt for a five.”

The cup in the green into which the ball is hit as in “Five? Try again, buster- you’re in the hole in twelve.”

One of 9 or 18 playing areas continuing a golf course, as in “On that hole I had a drive, two approach shots and two putts- that makes five.”

A missing element or discrepancy in a narrative or fault or flaw in logic or reasoning, as in “Your story is full of holes- what about those two lost balls, the stroke in the water hazard and the out-of-bounds shot?”

An aperture or opening as in “You have a hole in your head- those were practice swings.”

Indebtedness, as in “You lost, you weasel- you’re in the hole to me for fifty bucks.”

An embarrassing predicament or position, as in “Oh, yeah?” Well, I’m not paying so how do you like them apples? But you fork over fifty clams or you’ll be in a real hole at work when I tell your boss about how when you’re supposed to be with your clients you’re out on the golf course and your wife about that doxie you met on the putting green and – 8. An excavation or cavity, as in “The body was found in a shallow hole in a sand trap by the 13th green.”

Hole in One

An occurence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole on a single shot by a golfer playing along.

Home Course

A place where your chief handicap is that everyone knows exactly what it is.

Honor

The privilege of being laughed at first on the tee

Hook & Silence

To hit a shot that curves sharply left or right respectively. Players who do one or the other should consider changing the way they stand, hold the club, or swing. Players who do both should consider changing the way they spend their weekends.

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The Canadian Tour announced eight dates for the 2012 season on Tuesday.

The Canadian part of the schedule will kick off with the 30th playing of the Times Colonist Island Savings Open. That will be followed by the ATB Financial Classic and the Syncrude Boreal Open.

Those three events will all be contested in June. As the calendar turns to July, there are three more events, including the Canadian Open.

The Canadian Tour Championship will be contested at Scarborough Golf and Country Club in Toronto, which is celebrating its centennial in 2012.

“Traditionally we have released the full schedule in December, which has not given all of our events time to finalize their plans for the coming year. This year we have decided to delay the full release of the schedule until it is fully confirmed,” stated Rick Janes, Canadian Tour Commissioner and CEO.

“Our recent agreement with the PGA Tour has also provided us with some new horsepower and we are confident that we can get those events in question over the hump when the full schedule is released in a month from now.”

http://www.winnipegsun.com/2012/01/24/canadian-tour-announces-part-of-2012-schedule

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