![]() There are Longest Drive competitions, and the sport of Target Golf where players hit a golf ball at a large net, scoring points based on where the ball lands. Other elements of the game of golf have been utilized to create unique sports. There are other similar putting types of sport, such as Behcup, which using the putting motion though the balls are hit into a small goal rather than into a hole. This game is usually played on artificial surfaces, sometimes on pool tables with pool cues like Mini-Golf Billiards. These are sometimes called par-3 courses.Īn even shorter course is used in Mini-Golf (also going by the name Crazy Golf, Miniature Golf and Putt-Putt), which only requires the putting part of the game. If walking several miles to play a round of golf is too difficult, there are shorter versions, such as Pitch and Put, played on a golf course with holes typically less than eighty yards long, only requiring a pitch and a put. The record is a 65 shot in just over 44 minutes, a good score usually requiring several hours of strolling around the course. If time is an issue, then there is Speed Golf, a variation of golf in which the objective is to complete the course in the fewest possible number of strokes and the fastest time possible, the score is a combination of strokes and speed. There are other ways of playing such as Stableford, Ambrose, Skins (for details and more examples, see our page on golf game variations). In Match Play, two players (or two teams) play every hole as a separate contest against each other, the winner is the team to win the most number of holes. The basic and most common way of scoring, called Stroke play, is to count each stroke taken and the player with the lowest total number of strokes after 18 holes is the winner (the number of holes played can vary, particularly for professional tournaments). The game of modern golf, played on the traditional 18-hole grass course, can be played under several popular scoring systems. These games eventually made their way to Scotland where a version played on the 'links' became the game of golf. There were other golf-like stick and ball games played in those times in the streets, such as Crossage. ![]() A game played in the Netherlands in medieval times was Kolven (or Kolf, Colf) possibly a precursor to the modern game of golf. ![]()
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