Stage 1 of 4
The game
What the words on the card mean, how a handicap is worked out, and what is custom rather than rule.
You cannot mark a round properly without knowing what happened in it. These thirteen pages answer the questions that come up when someone else's golf is being discussed at the table: what the words on the card mean, how the handicap number is built, and which of the day's conventions are written down and which are simply expected. Nothing on this stage sells anything, and none of it assumes you play.
The reading, in order
- Golf questions, answered
- What is Stableford scoring?
- How is a handicap calculated?
- What is a good handicap?
- What does par mean?
- What is a bogey?
- What is a birdie?
- What is an albatross?
- What is a mulligan?
- How do you hold a golf club?
- What clubs are in a set?
- What is golf etiquette?
- What is the 70/30 rule?
- What is an eagle?
- Golf terminology, in plain English
And after that
Once the vocabulary is settled, the next stage is about one golf course in particular: their course, and what a photograph of it can honestly become.
Written by Craig Fearn, The Golf Gift Co. Last updated .