2 Timothy 2:5 – And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

By definition, a golf course is a large plot of land that contains a set of nine or 18 holes used to play golf. Hole also refers to the entire length of each unit from the tee pad to the greens on a golf course. Also, the term “tee box” refers to the area of tee-to-green elements on a golf course. The teeing area, as its name implies, is that area on the golf course where one is allowed to tee-up their balls–place a golf ball over a tee, lifting them from the ground.

It just means that, at the teeing area, you are allowed to work the ball around and put it on the top of the golf tee. Ideally, a fairway is the area where you would like to target when shooting your golf ball from a tee pad. You are going to hit a tee shot on the fairway, which is going straight through until it hits the turn, then the fairway will take a left or a right turn, and it will go that way all the way up to the green.

1 Corinthians 10:31 – Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

You will notice the fairway has very well-trimmed grass, making the balls easier to get away from the fairway than in some other areas on the course. The greens have longer grass than the fairway, meaning that the surface is not ideal to hit a ball off. Compared with the other parts of a golf course, a fairway is the area that is mowed closest, connecting tee pads with putting greens at golf holes.

Now, every 18-hole golf course also contains specific elements of a hole known as the tee pad, fairway, putting green, as well as the rough, bunkers, and penalty areas. Some of the big clubs have par-3 courses to accompany their traditional 18-hole courses (Augusta National comes to mind). Nine-hole courses are also common, with 12 holes being built as well. Most are 18 holes, with the golfer taking either a drive or putt on each hole in order to get the ball through the course to the next.

1 Timothy 4:8 – For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

If you are an experienced golfer, one full-sized golf course will take you around 60-80 strokes to get through all of the holes on the course. A full sized, or regulation, golf course is anywhere between (typically) 5,000 and 7,500 yards long, meaning that the distance covered is five when playing all holes from tee-to-green. As noted in the preceding pages, a full-size golf course contains 18 holes — 18 tee pads leading, through the fairway of each hole, to 18 putt greens.

As to the dimensions of the greens, those of Pebble Beach Golf Links, one of the games best-known courses, are considered to be smaller, each with an area of about 3,500 square feet. Links-style golf also typically features pocket-sized bunkers, in contrast to large, spread-out American-style bunkers.

Philippians 4:13 – I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Another major design component is arranging the greens in close proximity to the next tee, minimising travel distances, and mixing the short-and-long holes. Each hole will feature several tee boxes designed to accommodate a variety of skill levels. On average, you will find at least two tee markers on each hole — between which you are expected to hit your shots. During golf practice, you will want to work on your tee shots so that you can put the ball into fairway.

1 Corinthians 6:12 – All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Hitting shots out of the rough is a lot harder than playing the fairway. If you are looking to cut down on the handicap in golf, then find out how to avoid hitting shots in the rough.

Sometimes the fairways are really long, and it takes a few shots for a golfer to reach the green. Players attempt to get a golf ball in the hole as short as possible in fewer strokes. As you are hitting shots and looking for balls, golf carts may be used to help navigate the distance.

Colossians 3:8 – But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

The fairway is the path that you want to take on every hole of the golf course, and is the target that you want the ball to reach as you make your first swing at each par-4 or par-5 hole (on par-3 holes, which are shorter, your target is the green with your first swing). Each hole in the course has 5 main sections, which are Tee, fairway, green, rough, and hazards green. The putt green, or just the Green, is generally a rectangular or oval-shaped area in which a flagstick and a hole are located.

Modern courses are now generally designed so that the front 9 and back 9 are located in separate circuits beginning and ending at the clubhouse. Older courses tend to feature one looped long layout beginning and ending at the clubhouse. The playing length of the course, then, may obviously differ between golfers who play on the same golf course from different tees, and day-to-day in PGA Tour events, such as when tees and pins are moved from day to day.

Despite the fact that playing short golf courses generally increases amateur golfers enjoyment of their playing experience because they generally better suit their skill level, many players, particularly those playing mens game, have difficulty in getting tee shots out, making many players play a short course. The ideal golf course architecture is one which seeks to provide a similar experience for players who are playing off shorter tees as for those golfers capable of hitting further, but this is not always easy to achieve. Again, however, a key point to keep in mind for the casual golfer is that while average golf course length measured from the farthest back tees of courses around the world continues to increase, it is not necessary that average players play them. Since golfs popularity started taking off in earnest starting in the mid-1950s, many golf courses started adding more than one tee pad in order to give them varying length options in their designs, and accommodate golfers at different skill levels, including driving distance.

Proverbs 8:13 – The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Many of the best courses in Britain are Heathland courses including Woking Golf Club, Sunningdale Golf Club, and Alwoodley Golf Club. Every course in Australias sandbelt regions is excellent, but a few of the notable ones are Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Kingston Heath Golf Club, and Metropolitan Golf Club.