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Golf The Most Challenging Game in the World !
Is it not Murphy’s Law that the day you drive well, your iron shots are poor; or the day you hit all the greens, your putter is a cold as ice?
With golf, every day is a fresh start on your never-ending quest to shoot a lower score, par a specific hole or hit a certain type of shot well.
The initial challenge for the beginner is, of course, to get the ball airborne.
Hitting it straighter comes next and then further.
Getting the ball to stop more or less where you want it to is hugely satisfying and worth all the effort required. Finally, there’s the rather important business of actually persuading the ball to drop into the small hole. Something that even the legendary Tiger Woods failed to do at the 2022 Masters, on Saturday, taking three, three putts and a four putt en-route to one of the worst rounds of his career despite hitting the ball well!
Then there are those awkward tasks such as splashing out of bunkers or chipping off a variety of lies. As you grow more proficient, you will be introduced to the fiendishly tricky business of shaping a shot and become acquainted with the hook, slice, draw…






