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Golf Cart ... Golf cars come in a wide range of formats and are more generally used to convey small numbers of passengers short distances at speeds less than 15 mph (24 km/h) per ANSI Standard z130.1 as originally manufactured... The price of a golf car can range anywhere from $3,000 - $15,000 per car, depending on several factors... These factors may include whether or not a fleet of cars is being purchased for a golf course or a country club, for example, and whether the cars are new or used...

Senior Major Golf Championships ... The other four tournaments all date from 1980 or later, having been founded in the era when senior golf became a commercial success... This occurred when the first big golf stars of the television era, men such as Arnold Palmer and Gary Player, began to reach the relevant age...

Golf Course ... Each tee box has two markers showing the bounds of the legal tee area. The teeing area spans the distance between the markers, and extends two-club lengths behind the markers...

Driving Range ... Driving ranges are particularly popular in Japan where golf courses are overcrowded and often very expensive...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Golf Club ... It is loft that makes a golf ball leave the tee on an ascending trajectory, not the angle of swing; all swings contact the ball with a horizontal motion... Whether the game was being played in Scotland, Belgium, or any other country the golf clubs did not differ in the materials... However in the middle of the 18th century, it had switched to wood and only two golf clubs did not have wooden heads, the “niblick” and the “cleek”...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Glossary Of Golf ... Where words in a sentence are also defined elsewhere in this article, they appear in italics. Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0–9 19th hole the clubhouse bar...

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"...