Basketball ... Health effects Physical exercise is important for maintaining physical fitness and can contribute positively to maintaining a healthy weight, building and maintaining healthy bone density, muscle strength, and joint mobility, promoting physiological well-being, reducing surgical risks, and strengthening the immune system...
Fitness ... A regulation basketball ring consists of a rim 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high mounted to a backboard. A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket during regular play...
Sport ... Sport is generally recognised as activities which are based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with the largest major competitions such as the Olympic Games admitting only sports meeting this definition, and other organisations such as the Council of Europe using definitions precluding activities without a physical element from classification as sports. However, a number of competitive, but non-physical, actvities claim recognition as mind sports...
Australian Football Tactics And Skills ... You can join a Gym or hire a personal fitness instructor. There are many advantages to have a fitness instructor come to your home:-1) Increase Your Energy Level: If you are feeling tired, lacking in energy, demotivated and feel the need to try a different and fresh approach to improving your health and fitness, personal fitness training provides you more energized and better way to get fit... As you start to feel fitter you will want to eat healthier food so losing weight becomes easier.2) Improving Your Appearance: A fitness trainer with the proper personal trainer qualifications will design special courses matching your health, aims and objectives...
Physical Exercise ... It requires levels of superior fitness and skill to execute tactics and can result in much less physical style of play...
Weight Loss ... Poor management of type 1 diabetes mellitus, also known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), leads to an excessive amount of glucose and an insufficient amount of insulin in the bloodstream. This triggers the release of triglycerides from adipose (fat) tissue and catabolism (breakdown) of amino acids in muscle tissue...
Menopause ... The transition from reproductive to non-reproductive is the result of a reduction in female hormonal production by the ovaries. This transition is normally not sudden or abrupt, tends to occur over a period of years, and is a natural consequence of aging...
Further Reading: Golf
Handicap (golf) ... The R& A (now a separate organization from the Royal and Ancient Golf Club), based in St Andrews, Scotland, is responsible for the authorization of handicap systems in all golf playing countries except the United States and Mexico (where United States Golf Association rules apply)... The administration of handicapping systems in countries affiliated to the R& A is the responsibility of the national golf associations of those countries...
Hybrid (golf) ... For many players, long irons (numbers 1-4) are difficult to hit even with modern clubfaces, due to the low trajectory and very small face of the low-loft clubhead. Players tend to avoid these clubs in favor of fairway woods, but such woods, having longer shafts, have a different swing mechanic that is sometimes difficult to master...
Pitching Wedge ... This is for a number of reasons: first, before the term "wedge" became common for high-loft short irons, the pitching wedge was actually numbered as the "10-iron" of a matched set, and to this day it follows the normal loft progression of the numbered irons. Also, even though it has been named a wedge, many matched iron sets for retail sale include the pitching wedge even when not including other wedges...
Men's Major Golf Championships ... Masters" outside North America) is played at the same course, Augusta National Golf Club, every year, while the other three rotate courses (the Open Championship, however, is always played on a links course)... Each of the majors has a distinct history, and they are run by four different golf organizations, but their special status is recognized worldwide... Major championship winners receive the maximum possible allocation of 100 points from the Official World Golf Ranking, which is endorsed by all of the main tours, and major championship prize money is official on the three richest regular (i.e...
Shaft (golf) ... Prior to 1935, hickory was the dominant material for shaft manufacturing, but it proved difficult to master for most golfers, as well as being quite frail. Steel would become the ubiquitous choice for much of the second half of the twentieth century...
History Of Golf ... Ling Hongling of Lanzhou University suggests that a game similar to modern-day golf was played in China since Southern Tang Dynasty, 500 years before golf was first mentioned in Scotland... Andrews, one of the oldest Scottish golf organisations, said "Stick and ball games have been around for many centuries, but golf as we know it today, played over 18 holes, clearly originated in Scotland." The word golf, or in Scots gouf, is usually thought to be a Scots alteration of Dutch "colf" or "colve" meaning "stick, "club", "bat", itself related to the Proto-Germanic language *kulth- as found in Old Norse kolfr meaning "bell clapper", and the German Kolben meaning "mace or club"...
Tee ... A standard golf tee is 2.125" (two and one eighth inches = 5.4 cm) long, but both longer and shorter tees are permitted... There are also many biodegradable, ecological and recycable golf tees that diminish the number trees cut down to manufacture the tees and allow golf courses to lower costs by not having to deal with the broken wooden tees on their courses... According to the R& A rule book, for a tee to be legal, "It must not be longer than 4 inches (101.6 mm) and it must not be designed or manufactured in such a way that it could indicate the line of play or influence the movement of the ball." History The development of the tee was the last major change to the rules of golf...
Par (score) ... Some golf courses feature par-sixes and, albeit very rarely, par-sevens, although the latter are not recognised by the United States Golf Association... Typical championship golf courses have par values of 72, comprising four par-threes, ten par-fours, and four par-fives...
Driving Range ... Driving ranges are particularly popular in Japan where golf courses are overcrowded and often very expensive...
Golf Ball ... Under the Rules of Golf, a golf ball weighs no more than 1.620 oz (45.93 grams), has a diameter not less than 1.680 in (42.67 mm), and performs within specified velocity, distance, and symmetry limits... Like golf clubs, golf balls are subject to testing and approval by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and the United States Golf Association, and those that do not conform with regulations may not be used in competitions (Rule 5-1)... History Hard Wooden balls were the first used golf balls until the early 17th century, when the featherie ball added a new and exciting feature to the game of golf...
Professional Golf Tours ... Golf is one of the more lucrative sports in the world for both men and women, but it has a very different structure from other sports, especially team sports... For the less successful, trying to make a living from tournament golf can be precarious: tournaments have entry fees and the associated costs of travel and lodging, plus the hire of a caddy... In the early days of professional golf in each region of the world each professional tournament was established by a separate golf club, golf organisation or commercial sponsor...
Women's Major Golf Championships ... Also unlike the men's majors, none of which fall under the direct jurisdiction of any professional golf tour, the LPGA organizes two of its four majors, namely the Kraft Nabisco and LPGA Championship... The Women's British Open is operated by the Ladies' Golf Union, the governing body for women's golf in the United Kingdom and Ireland...
Wood (golf) ... Some golf enthusiasts refer to these as "metals" or "metal woods" but this change in terminology is not strictly necessary, because while the material has changed, the style and intended use has not...
Wedge (golf) ... Pitching wedge A pitching wedge is a type of golf club used to hit a shot with higher and shorter trajectory than a 9-iron and a lower and longer trajectory than a gap wedge...
Professional Golfer ... Professional golfers are divided into two main groups, with a limited amount of overlap between them: The great majority of professional golfers (at least 95%) make their living from teaching the game, running golf clubs and courses, and dealing in golf equipment... The senior professional golfer at a golf club is usually referred to as the club professional, but at a large golf club or resort with several courses his job title is likely to be director of golf... A golfer who concentrates wholly or nearly so on giving golf lessons is a teaching professional, golf instructor or golf coach...
Golf Stroke Mechanics ... For all golfers, it consists of a pre-stroke: (in which golfer choose which club they want and their stance) and the actual stroke. The pre-swing Many golfers' pre-swing looks like this: Golfers start with the non-dominant side of the body facing the target...
Slope Rating ... The USGA slope rating of a golf course is a mark that describes the measure of difficulty for a bogey golfer relative to a scratch golfer at a specific set of tees...
Iron (golf) ... A standard set of 14 golf clubs will contain many irons, which are customarily differentiated by the angle of loft on the clubface, although they will also vary in clubhead size, shaft length, and hence lie angle...
Hazard (golf) ... which may be of three types: (1) water hazards such as lakes and rivers; (2) man-made hazards such as bunkers; and (3) natural hazards such as dense vegetation. Special rules apply to playing balls that fall in a hazard...
Gap Wedge ... The Karsten Manufacturing Company, maker of the Ping brand of golf clubs, used to label its gap wedges with "U" for "utility wedge"...
Golf Equipment ... Golf bags are usually nylon or leather and are cylindrically constructed around a plastic frame, but historically have been made from other materials such as elephant's penis... Golf bags have several pockets designed for carrying various equipment and supplies required over the course of a round of golf... Golf bags can be carried, pulled on a two-wheel pull cart or harnessed to a motorized golf cart during play...
Putter ... Putters usually have a loft of 5° but cannot be more than 10°. The putter is the only club that may have a grip that is not perfectly round; "shield"-like cross-sections with a flat top and curved underside are most common...