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Golf is a carefully balanced game of rules and etiquette, and it’s very important to know the basics of golfing etiquette before you go on the course to play your first game of golf.

Whether you are playing on your own, in a twosome or a foursome, the first rule of golfing etiquette is that you must always wait your turn. You must stay aware of the group on the next hole and wait until they are well ahead of you before hitting your ball.

Golfing etiquette also says that it is never cool to “push” the group in front of you. If you are playing with others, wait your turn to hit the ball and never hit at the same time as another player.

While you are waiting for your turn, go to your ball and determine what club you will need to use and how you are going to hit it. This is called “ready golf” and keeps the game moving along. Don’t rush anybody, just be ready.

Another useful piece of golfing etiquette, especially for the beginner is ‘playing through’. For example, if your team is holding up the players behind you, say because you are playing consistently over par, let them play through. You would simply wave them through, or if they are near enough to you, just ask them if they would like to play through. You will never make enemies by doing this!

When someone is making a shot, you should be behind them and you shouldn’t make any noise! It is so distracting to be just about to to tee off and just as you pull back, someone decides to jingle loose change in their pocket or noisily unwrap a sweet.

Replacing your divots. Say you are on the fairway and you hit the ball and a clod of dirt and grass goes flying, golfing etiquette says you should replace it. On some courses you just put the clod back and step on it to press it down, but on most courses, there is a sand/seed mixture on the course to put into the divot. If your ball makes a deep impression when it lands on the green, you can use your divot tool to repair it.

As soon as you have completed a hole, replace the flag and leave the green as quickly and quietly as possible there may be another team teeing off at the next hole) so that the next players can play that hole. Count your score and write it on the scorecard as soon as you get back to your trolley.

Of course, there are many more rules of golfing etiquette, but these simple ones will enable you to get through the course without making anyone annoyed. If we all keep to golfing etiquette we will keep the game dignified, right?

It can be very exciting to choose a first golf club set after practicing with other kids sets or hand me down sets for a period of time. If a golfer has not really played the game at all before and wants to buy his own set, there are certain considerations for a beginner golfer versus a more experienced one who has been using other equipment. A golf club set is bought according to the needs of the golfer, such as the level of ability, whether the golfer is an adult or a child, or whether it is a gentlemen’s or ladies golf club set. All of these factors determine what types of clubs are put into the set, although no set will have more than fourteen clubs in it at one time.

Differences

If the junior golfer is a low handicap child golfer, meaning that the handicap is a single digit, then there are certain clubs that he will need in his golf club set. The clubs come in three types: woods, irons and wedges, and each type is used for a different type of shot during the game. A beginning player will probably only need one wood in the set, usually a three wood, since he is not experienced enough to make much of a difference when teeing off with another wood.

With the junior irons, the beginning player will probably want to keep the lower numbered irons since the higher ones are more difficult to control and are not as good for a low handicap player until he has more experience. In the wedges, the low handicap player will probably want three different types in the golf club set. There should probably be a sand wedge for if he hits into a sand trap, a pitching wedge and also a lob wedge. Some golf club reviews promote an approach wedge instead of a lob wedge for beginning players, so the beginner ought to try out each and see what works best for him. The last thing that is not usually sold in a set is the putter, since each person has his own tastes in putters and usually wants to buy it separately from the golf club set.

Another option in choosing a junior golf club set is whether the player is right or left handed. Sometimes a person might be left handed in most things, but may find that he plays golf right handed better than left. Left handed clubs are rarer and harder to find for a golf club set, but they can be found in any pand, even if it has to be special ordered.