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Like all other sports, golf has rules, so if you golf or plan to start playing golf you should read or go over these rules. Also on this page are some funny golf terms.

* You must tee your ball within one club's length of the hole

*Your tee must be on the ground

*You are not to remove stones, bones, or any break club for the sake of playing your ball, except on the fairway and when on the green.
* If your ball comes among water, or any watery filth, you are at liberty to take out your ball and bringing it behind the hazard and teeing it, and  you may play with any club.

*If your balls be found anywhere touching one another you are to lift the first ball till you play the last.

*If you should lose your ball by its being taken up any other way you are to go back to the spot where you struck last and drop another ball and allow your adversary a stroke for the misfortune.
* No man  is to be allowed to mark his way to the hole with his club or anything else.

*If a ball is stopped by any person, horse, or dog, or anything else, the ball stopped must be played where it lays.

*If you draw your club in order to strike and proceed so far in the stroke as to be bringing down your clubs; if in any way, it is to be accounted a stroke

 

Here are some golf terms, by the way there semi-right, there half correct. Trust me there funny.

*Golfing-The art of using a flawed stance, a faulty grip, and an ugly swing to hit a small ball badly toward the wrong hole.

*Birdie-A mulligan, the best of one or more "practice swings" and a 20-foot "gimme putt"

*Bogey-The number of strokes taken on a hole achieved by a golfer with an exceptionally good drive and one or two exceptionally good follow-up shots, or by a golfer with an exceptionally poor memory.
  *Par-Score achieved by a golfer who had only a few great shots on an entire round but some how managed to hit them all on the same hole.

*Golf Cart-Four-wheeled electric or gas-powered vehicle that decreases the exercise value of playing 18 holes of golf from about the level of two sets of double tennis or a 5-mile hike to the equivalent of an hour of vigorous shopping. 

 

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