Talk:Golf

Playing Partners

12 players are going on tour with 5 rounds of golf, and we want to ensure everyone has a chance of playing against each other. Do you know of a web site that can sort out the numbers and makle sure no one plays with each other more than twice?

Association with wealth and business

How is it that an article on golf can avoid mentioning the widespread association of the game with the lifestyles of the business elite and the very rich? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:12C1:2C5:0:AB39:1E49:E5DF (talk) 14:19, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Peer Review

Links on citations work well. I did not see any cases of plagiarism. All language seems to be original. All information looks to be up to date. New rules and regulations for 2019 can be added as those are going to be coming into effect soon. Each fact is referenced appropriately. Logan7733 (talk) 00:20, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 December 2019

Please remove the following text from the Golf#Handicap systems section, as it goes into far too much detail about one specific system and it is also inaccurate:

By USGA rules, handicap calculation first requires calculating a "Handicap Differential" for each round of play the player has completed by strict rules. That in itself is a function of the player's "gross adjusted score" (adjustments can be made to mitigate various deviations either from strict rules or from a player's normal capabilities, for handicap purposes only) and two course-specific difficulty ratings: the Course Rating, a calculated expected score for a hypothetical "scratch golfer": and the Slope Rating, a number based on how much worse a hypothetical 20-handicap "bogey golfer" would score compared to the "scratch golfer". The average Slope Rating of all USGA-rated courses as of 2012 is 113, which also factors into the Differential computation.

The most recent Differentials are logged, up to 20 of them, and then the best of these (the number used depends on the number available) are selected, averaged, multiplied by .96 (an "excellence factor" that reduces the handicap of higher-scoring players, encouraging them to play better and thus lower their handicap), and truncated to the tenths place to produce the "Handicap Index". Additional calculations can be used to place higher significance on a player's recent tournament scores. A player's Handicap Index is then multiplied by the Slope Rating of the course to be played, divided by the average Slope Rating of 113, then rounded to the nearest integer to produce the player's Course Handicap.

Once calculated, the Course Handicap is applied in stroke play by simply reducing the player's gross score by the handicap, to produce a net score. So, a gross score of 96 with a handicap of 22 would produce a net score of 74. In match play, the lower handicap is subtracted from the higher handicap, and the resulting handicap strokes are awarded to the higher handicapper by distributing them among the holes according to each hole's difficulty; holes are ranked on the scorecard from 1 to 18 (or however many holes are available), and one stroke is applied to each hole from the most difficult to the least difficult. So, if one player has a 9 handicap and another has a 25 handicap, the 25-handicap player receives one handicap stroke on each of the most difficult 16 holes (25-9). If the 25-handicapper were playing against a "scratch golfer" (zero handicap), all 25 strokes would be distributed, first by applying one stroke to each hole, then applying the remaining strokes, one each, to the most difficult 7 holes; so, the handicap player would subtract 2 strokes from each of the most difficult 7 holes, and 1 each from the remaining 11.

 Done I agree that the three paragraphs requested are overly-technical, dense, and only serve to reduce readability. They are also unsourced and is duplicative of the Handicap (golf), which is already linked here as a section headnote. I have therefore WP:BOLDly removed them. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 23:07, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 2 June 2020

The tee box is actually just called the tee. 2A02:C7F:7647:A400:DB9:C17:CF3D:A542 (talk) 09:38, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Jack Frost (talk) 10:03, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

The terminology is "teeing ground", per the rules and various cited sources. I have made this change to all instances for consistency. It is also already noted in the article (Play of the game) that the terms "tee box" and "tee" are also used. _wjemather^{please leave a message...} 12:17, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Similarities to cricket and other hitting sports

The "drive" in golf is similar to a slog in cricket. GreekApple123 (talk) 20:52, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

If you have reliable sources for that, then Golf stroke mechanics would probably be the best place for it. _wjemather^{please leave a message...} 20:56, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 October 2020

Please add a hatnote:

Not to be confused with Gulf.

I've just added a similar one to Gulf, since they're pronounced the same. 2601:5C6:8081:35C0:7879:47B5:15EE:811F (talk) 11:18, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Not done Doesn't seem particularly helpful, since they have different pronunciations. _wjemather^{please leave a message...} 11:41, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Where does the word 'golf' comes from.

The article does not discuss at all the etymology of the word 'golf', which is odd because it doesn't seem obvious that it has anything to do with the usual meaning of the word golf. In fact, I would maintain that it is clear that the word 'golf' is a bastardisation of the word 'kolf' in Dutch, which means beaker or hollow cup. This makes sense w.r.t. the shape of the golf club which has the form of a cup attached to a pole. Hence, this seems to underpin the real origin of golf: not at all invented in Scotland, but brought to the British isles by Scottish merchants from Holland (who in turn may have originally got the game from China). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Franknij (talk • contribs) 12:27, 7 November 2020 (UTC)