Golf

When an amateur wins a professional event, the organisers will give the prize money for 1st place to the 2nd placed competitor, and 2nd place prize money to 3rd placed and so on.

The Hosel (one 's') is the socket or neck in the head of a golf club into which the shaft is inserted.

Anywhere form 300-450 depending on your brand of ball.

Assuming you are referring to the "break" on the green, it is the slope of the surface of the putting green. When putting if the ball rolls to the right it is said to be a "right break" same for left break, ball rolls to left after being struck by putter. To hit the hole when putting on a right break, you would have to hit ball to the left. You will hear terms such as "inside left edge" which would indicate to aim at the left side of the cup and the ball should "break" right into the cup when you hit put.

Other terms: right edge, outside right edge, 2 inches outside right edge(aim 2 inches outside right side of cup), etc. A severe break would be 3-4 feet of break.

Distance and Speed as factors:

Distance from cup is a major determining factor for break. If ball were 5 foot from cup a break of inside the left edge would possibly be 1-2 feet of break if the ball were 15 feet from hole.

Speed is also a major consideration. Normally when break is stated it is assumed the speed of the put would cause the ball to stop 1-2 feet past the ball.

Some putters are "die in" putters. They only hit ball enough to get it exactly to hole and ball literally falls into the hole as it is stopping. Some golfers are very good at this but it is not recommended for most golfers. These golfers must be very good at reading break and speed of putting surface.

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Salaries for professional golfers vary widely based on the number of tournaments they enter and win and the number of endorsements/sponsors they have.

Tiger Woods, the highest paid athlete in the world, earned $110 million from 2008 to 2009 from both tournament earnings and sponsorships.

There is still a major doubt about the 2009 IRISH OPEN. A sponsor has been found 3 mobile ,but the chosen venue of Mount Juliet declined the offer to stage the event. We are all now waiting to see if anything can be resurrected with Adare Manor or another venue to stage the 2009 event They have asked 'Baltray' to host the event as they think the east coast will attract more spectators and they also think better players will play if it's hosted by a famous links course it's now up to the club to accept. Carton House are also have been known tohave shown an intersest but 'Baltray' are favourites to host the event.

Yes, they will hit the ground at the same time because while they will have different velocities over all, they will at all times have the same vertical velocity. And its that velocity which determines when they hit the ground.

Driver: Nike SasQuatch Tour 460cc 8.5º

3 Wood: Nike Ignite T60 15º

5 Wood: Nike Ignite T40 19º

Irons (3-9): Nike Blades

Pitching Wedge: Nike Blades

Sand Wedge: Nike Pro Combo 56º

Lob Wedge: Nike Flatback TW 60º

Putter: Scotty Cameron by Titleist Studio Stainless Newport 2 TW Prototype

Ball: Nike One Platinum TW Prototype

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As per USGA rules it is only a maximum of 24. And for Ladies it is 36.

The tip is the section of the shaft which goes into the head of a club. Different club heads have different tip sizes so can only take certain shafts. The most common tip sizes are .335 inches and .350 inches.

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Golf professionals use clubs from a variety of manufacturers and are each tailored to each individual to suit their specific individual body type and swing.

There is an awful lot to be gained by having a correctly fitted set of clubs, something all pros but not all amateur golfers take advantage of.

Most Pros will then select 13 clubs from a pool for possibly 18 clubs (Golfers may only carry 14 clubs, and virtually all serious players will carry a putter!) specifically for the course they are playing on that particular day. They select the clubs that will provide the best combination of clubs taking into consideration trajectory, carry, overall distance, spin rate, feel at impact, course setup and hazards, but it's essentially the clubs they think that will enable them to shoot the lowest score possible for that round!

List of clubs modern pros (incl. women) typically use;

Driver (1W) 2-Wood 3-Wood 4-Wood 5-Wood 7-Wood

2- Hybrid 3-Hybrid 4-Hybrid 5-Hybrid

2-iron 3-iron 4-iron 5-iron 6-iron 7-iron 8-iron 9-iron

Pitching Wedge Attack Wedge Gap Wedge Sand Wedge Lob Wedge High Lob Wedge

Putter

Not all clubface lofts are universal between clubs marked the same. The lofts vary between individual clubs and manufacturers. ie - XYZ PW has 46 degrees of loft whilst ABC PW has 48 degrees.

Like any major, the US Open has 4 rounds of golf. The cut is made after 2 rounds. This year's tournament has been plagued by bad weather; so the second round is being played on Saturday, instead of the usual Friday.

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Step 1. Become filthy rich. Step 2. Cultivate friends who are members of Augusta National. Step 3. Shmooze heavily. There are a few other ways. Dwight Eisenhower was able to play Augusta because he was a war hero and President. To follow that route, ask your Congressman to appoint you to West Point, study hard, and hope for another World War just as your career is reaching its peak. Simply being President doesn't seem to be enough. I don't think they ever invited Bill Clinton to play. Seriously, Augusta is incredibly exclusive and snobbish. Asking won't get you much of anywhere.

The University of Houston has had 17 NCAA-recognized National Championship Teams comprised of 16 Golf National Championships and 1 Cross Country National Championship. The school has also had numerous individual NCAA National Champions and Olympic Gold Medalists.

1. Arnold Palmer - PGA Tour, Estimated Net Worth $675 Million

2. Roger Staubach - NFL, Estimated New Worth $600 Million

3. Magic Johnson - NBA, Estimated New Worth $500 Million

Michael Jordan - NBA, Estimated New Worth $500 Million

Tiger Woods - PGA, Estimated New Worth $500 Million

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Fergus Muir made a 375-foot "putt" on the par-3 fifth hole at St. Andrews Eden course for a hole in one. But this was a shot with a putter off the tee.

The Longest Televised putt was 206 feet by short-game wizard Dave Pelz at Whistling Straits in the run-up to the 2004 PGA Championship.

In 1981, Terry Wogan set the world record for the longest successful golf putt ever televised, which was 33 yards (30.2m) at the Gleneagles golf course in a pro-celebrity TV programme on the BBC.

*(To see this putt and get more information on both, see the related link)

Olympic swimming gold medalist Michael Phelps famously made a long putt in 2012 in team play at St. Andrews in Scotland. The putt was variously reported as 153 or 159 feet and with his net stroke gave him a "1" for the hole.

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Possibly... although the tomb of Kheti some 2500 years BC has pictures of people playing something very similar to golf.

Similarly the Greeks were playing a golf-like game in the second millennium Before Christ and the Romans also played Paganica, a game that involved hitting small balls with clubs at targets. Very similar to golf.

The Chinese were also playing Chuiwan in the 10th century - a game with clubs and small balls.

So did Scotland invent it or just develop the ideas already involved in ancient games? They are the developers of the game as it is today and, as far as is known, came up with the idea of the hole as the target but 'golf' as an idea was 'invented' long, long ago.

The word golf probably comes from the Ducth "kolf" meaning club and "Kolven" which is the name of a game very similar to modern golf that was played in Holland at least as early as the 13th century.

A bunker, although some call it a sand trap.