February 26, 2008
The first written, laid down rules, come from the year 1744 by the Gentlemen golfers of Leith. The modern golf rules have their origin however in the 1754 established Royal & Ancient golf club of St Andrews (R&A). Today they are published jointly by R&A and USGA and have currently been revised for the end of 2007. A peculiarity in golf is the very large and extensively size of the playing field (the so-called golf course) so the rules must uncover a multitude of conceivable situations. For this reason the control device is more extensive than that of the most other sports and even seasoned players are occasionally uncertain as to which rule to use in any given situation.
Every national golf association (in Germany of the DGV) reproaches an expert commission for this purpose that answers debatable rule questions as far as it considers the circumstance to be unambiguous. If this is not the case then the R&A and/or the USGA is in the end asked for a so-called final “Decision”, therefore an official rule interpretation. These golf rules and also the Decisions are published (on meanwhile more than 800 pages) however they have a comparatively slight practical relevance because they treat mainly specials cases.
So although learning the basic rules is easy, learning the exceptions to the rules can be quite a headache.
February 3, 2008
Whoever plays golf will certainly recognize that it can be rather expensive to buy continuously new golf balls. For this reason many golfers are on the search for used golf balls for their golf bag. On the internet one can finds these so-called “Lake balls” in quite a few Shops for a few cents per pop. One often reaches into ones bag on many occasions and draws out a No-Name ball. When shopping for Lakeballs one can also choose among Lakeballs from the most diverse brand manufacturers. Of course there are also some differences with the prices for the balls here but it mainly depends on how played the golf balls is. The quality varies from store to store depending on where you shop.
In some Shops, a wild mixture of Lakeballs is offered,however one can never know exactly which balls one will get. In other Shops,used golf balls are on display right next to the new balls. With these Lake balls however, one can save over 70 percent of the costs in such Shops as opposed to purchasing new balls. The selection is almost identical to that of the new balls. For instance one finds many brands like Titleist, Pinnacle, Top-Flite, Precept, Dunlop or Callaway.
Another option for cheap balls is factory rejects. These are identifiable by the brand name being crossed out with “x”. These are much cheaper than those that passed the tests and those that I have used always work just fine.
Whichever ball you choose you must remember that a bad workman always blames his tools.
Quality Used Golf Balls
