For my first week of learning golf I decided to start from the very beginning before I step foot on the greens. Golf terminology is something I have heard but I’m not 100% “fluent” in. Some of the terms I was familiar with was

Par – the amount of strokes on that hole

Birdie – 1 stroke under par

Eagle – 2 strokes under par

Bogie – 1 stroke over par

And so on

Some new terms I have heard but did not know the meaning would be

Slice – shot with an extreme curve to the right

Hook –  is where the ball curves powerfully from right to left and left to right if the player is left-handed.

Mulligan – an opponent may permit one to replay one’s last shot.

There are many other terms to learn but these are the ones I found most important as a beginner.

One thing I liked about this site was the way it’s layed out . They didn’t have a long intro to the page as sometimes if I see multiple paragraphs I have to scroll past I will just go to another site but this one was short which made me stay. Secondly I love the alphabetical order of the list. This makes it easy for a beginner like me to look up a term when I hear it on the course. Lastly I appreciated the closing paragraph of encouragement and use of the language in the game of golf.

A “complaint” I have with the site would be that they combined Ace and Hole in one almost together as they assumed most people know what a hole in one is so they only put ace as a term.