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The Basic Rules to Playing Golf

The game of golf is not only physically but also mentally challenging. It is a strategic game that has many fans around the world. Golf is played by hitting a golf ball using golf clubs on an area called the teeing ground. Once the ball has been hit, it will travel along fairways and into the next prepared area, where a hole is found. This prepared area is known as the putting green.

Simply put, the target of the game is of course to put the ball into the hole in as few hits as possible. This means that a golfer has to complete the hole by hitting the golf ball from the teeing ground into the hole in the putting green using the golf club in as little strokes as possible. A round of golf usually means a play of 18 holes.

There are two basically two kinds of play in golf. In the match play, the winner is determined according to the number of holes lost and won. In the other kind of play, which is the stroke play, the winner is the golfer who uses the least number of strokes to complete a round.

In playing the game, there are two very fundamental rules to adhere to: Play the course as you find it; and play the ball as it is found.

Should the rules above be difficult for you to follow, keep in mind that you should at least play fair at all times. How do you determine what is fair and what is not? Read on and find out some rules which will give you a greater understanding on how to be a fair player in playing golf.

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Basic Golf Courtesy

Do not stand, move or talk too close to a golfer who is about to make a stroke.

Play without any delay. Leave as soon as the other members in your group leave.

Try your best to play when everyone in your group is already out of the way.

Try to replace the divots as much as you can. And if you have walked into a bunker, don’t forget to smooth out all your footprints.

It is not advisable for you to drop your golf clubs on the putting green, so avoid it at all cost.

Rules to Playing Golf

Before you start on your round of golf, take some time to read the local rules which are stated on the scorecard that you hold. After reading the rules, it is a good idea for you to mark which golf ball you will be using, which will make it easier for you to identify it. Several golfers may be suing the same brand of golf balls as you, In this case, it would be easy to see which golf ball belongs to you.

Before you start, make sure you have counted your golf clubs. You are allowed a maximum of fourteen golf clubs.

When beginning the actual play, make sure you tee off in front of your tee markers. Should your tee off be a little bit off, or outside of the area specified, you may be asked to repeat your stroke. If this happens in a match play, then you are lucky as there will be no penalty for you. However, if this happens in a stroke play, then you are given a two-stroke penalty. That is why it is important for you to tee off in the specified area.

When you are playing, should your ball lie in a water hazard or a bunker, remember not to hit or touch the water or bunker in any way before you do your downswing.

The ball should never be spooned or pushed: it should always be struck fairly.

It is all right if you want to mark the ball that you are using. You could also clean your ball: just lift it, clean and put it back exactly where it was previously.

In the case of dropping a ball, the best way to do so would be to stand straight and to hold your golf ball at the length of your shoulder, and to drop it gently. Should you, in dropping the ball, happen to strike another player, the caddie or even yourself, you must drop the ball again. This is done with no penalty.

It would also be all right for you to pick up your ball if by doing so you would assist another player. On the other hand, you may also lift any other ball if that ball is interfering with your playing or another player.

By remembering the basic rules of golf as well as the basic common courtesies of playing golf fairly, you will make the game more enjoyable for you and others.

Juzaily Ramli and Tommy Lehmann are golf buddies and also proud owners of their golf website and offer free golf lessons at Golf Rules and Golf Swing.

Seven Rules For Starting a Business in 2009

Article by Steve Reeves

Every year the number of people starting up their own businesses increases.

The three main demographics for start-ups are

* Baby Boomers past their sell buy date in big corporates but with skills their erstwhile employers still need* Moms (or Dads) who’d rather spend time home with the kids and still work* Tech Grads who’d rather “compute” than “commute”

This is all part of a general direction toward “hollow” corporations where senior execs and accountants outsource everything they can. They can reduce fixed costs, overhead, and be more agile in resourcing projects.

There’s some good news for the Solopreneurs as well. Avoiding the daily commute, getting off the corporate tread mill, keeping more of what they make, taking a vacation or a day on the golf course once in a while.

But going solo isn’t totally a bed of roses. Most of the support structures we rely on when working in a corporation are suddenly missing.

* In the past we looked after Strategy, or Tactics, or Execution, or Administration. Now we have to worry about all of these, and it’s our nut we lose when it goes wrong.

* Few of us are properly trained as pure managers – keeping all those plates spinning isn’t as easy when one guy has to do everything, all at the same time. Things don’t get handled by organizational structures any more. In small businesses everybody does a bit of everything.

* IT support suddenly isn’t there – all that complicated stuff we took for granted now takes up our customer time (or more often our “me” time.

* We’re suddenly not part of the “networks” we used to rely on – we’re outsiders.

* We don’t have others bringing in the revenue – whether we like it or not, or are good at it or not, we end up “selling”.

We can make our lives easier if we can change our thinking – from corporate executive, part of a team, going along to get along, to being connected to the rest of the world.

The world is full of people like us, with the same interests, challenges and needs for support.

There are thousands of new businesses providing services to the Solopreneurs, adding value and reducing costs.

The Internet is moving at the speed of light. If we have an insoluble problem today, we’ll wait a bit, somebody will solve it for us, on the Internet.

If we can harness what’s happening on the Internet, and exploit it to our business advantage, we’ll replace the corporate structure benefits we miss and expand our networks and opportunities in the process.

Here’s a set of basics anybody going solo might want to consider:

1. Ditch the Desktop.* There’s nothing more limiting than all that desktop, office productivity software. It’s expensive, complicated, but worst of all, it stops us being “connected”. Only be being permanently connected can be take full advantage of what’s happening out there.

2. Look for Services – not Solutions.* Solopreneurs don’t need accounting systems or order processing, or even typical project management and CRM tools. They do need services to help them with these needs, but they’re all available on the Internet for free, or close to it.

3. Look for Value Add* Every service should add value to the basic requirement. For example we all need billing software. If we choose a billing service that hooks up to merchant processing and or PayPal we don’t need to keep accounts receivables records. If we choose a planning or management system we should find one with “best practice built in”. We can forget the training course, and just use the software.

4. Forget the Marketing Site – get a Blog.* Nobody’s interested in words we pay a copywriter for. They want to know what we think. Blogs are free, hosted, configurable and allow us to create our own persona. With a blog we don’t need sales pitches and presentations – we invite people to visit our blog where they get our best stuff, every time.

5. Get “Connected” with Social Media.* Set up profiles with Linked In, Facebook, Community and special interest sites. Join in forums and contribute. Ask questions and answer other people’s. Replace the corporate network with your own, international, group of like minded souls.

* Get into Twitter – microblogging is the fastest way to find out about anything.6. Get into “Video”.* If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million – even if it’s just a video of our slide presentation.

7. Publish what you know about in blogs and articles.* This is your credibility, and it’s permanent so worth doing well.

Some of the services the start-up might want to consider are the ones we use every day in our business. Here’s the list:

* Front Office Box for managing relationships, plans and schedules (it’s ours so we would)* Google Aps for Email, Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations and web sites (we do our accounting in the spreadsheets)* WordPress and Blogger for blogs* Twitter for microblogging* You Tube and Screencast for video* Jing for screen capture and video* Skype for phones* Cashboard for billing* PayPal for merchant services* Ning for our own user group forum

About the Author

Steve Reeves, CEO of Front Office Box, accountant turned salesman, entrepreneur consultant, young enough to want to change the world, and old enough to know better. Visit Front Office Box for Steve’s blog and some Plan, Act Review software