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AMERICAN FOOTBALL

 

American Football is an exciting team sport played chiefly in the United States and Canada.  It is played by elementary school, high school, college, and professional teams.  Millions of people crowd stadiums each football season to watch their favorite teams.  Millions more watch televised games between college teams and teams in the two major professional leagues, the National Football League (NFL) of the United States and the Canadian Football League (CFL).

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GOLF

 

Golf is an outdoor sport in which a player attempts to hit a small, hard ball into a hole in as few hits as possible.  Players hit the ball with one of several kinds of long, slender golf clubs.  The kind of club depends on the location of the ball and distance from the hole.  Golf is played on a course that normally is divided into 18 units, also called holes, of varying lengths and difficulty.

 

The Course

Golf courses have no regulation length or shape, but most consist of 18 holes numbered 1 to 18.  Playing all 18 holes makes up a round of golf.  On courses that have only nine holes, each hole is played twice for a round.

An 18-hole course averages about 55 hectares.  Each hole includes a tee, a fairway, a green, and often one or more hazards.

 

Golf Terms

Birdie is a score of one under par on a hole.

Bogey is a score of one above par on a hole.  A double bogey is two over par and a triple bogey is three over par.

Eagle is a score of two under par on a hole.

Handicap is a method of equalizing competition by allowing a certain number of strokes to a golfer competing against a more skillful player.  The handicap is computed from a golfer’s previous scores.

Hole-in-one, also called ace.  This rare score occurs when the golfers tee shot goes into the hole.

Lie is the position in which the ball lies on the course after a stroke.  An unplayable lie exists when the position of the ball makes it impossible to hit.