Golf

This quote may no longer be pertinent as many golf courses now require players rent golf carts. A list of useful Web sites for practitioners of golf, either experts or beginners, is presented below. Before you go to play golf you'll need to check the weather. Weather Underground is one of the better weather sites. Going to Myrtle Beach for golf? Check this week's weather or find the weather for any city in the world. Visiting Spain? Golf Resorts Online will give you an extensive list with links to Web sites. Don't know a bogey from a boogie? The "ABC's of Golf's" Glossary will inform you.

USGA
www.usga.org
The official site of the United States Golf Association - members' program, handicapping, rules of the game, Golf Journal online, and more.

PGA of America
www.pgaonline.com
The official site of the Professional Golfers' Association of America - lead stories, tournaments, Ryder Cup matches, and more.

PGA Tour
www.pgatour.com
The official site of the PGA Tour - players' biographies, stats, results, scorecards, and Web sites, events, and tournament schedules.

Golfcourse.com
www.golfcourse.com
Find a golf course. From Sports Illustrated and Golf Magazine. Over 20,000 courses are listed worldwide. You can search by course name, city, or state. Rating, slope, par, yardage, fees, other course characteristics, and driving (auto) directions are given.

Golfonline
sportsillustrated.cnn.com/
From Sports Illustrated and Golf Magazine. Tours, equipment, courses and travel, rules of the game, instruction, golf history, previous Golfonline columns, online management of your game, and more.

Golf for Dummies
usatoday.golfserv.com/apps/tools/glossary.asp
From USA Today. Golf phrases, terms and slang. Think a "bisque" is a rich, creamy soup made from meat, fish, or shellfish? Guess again. In golf, a bisque is a handicap stroke given by one player to another. Amaze your friends with your knowledge of the arcana of golf terminology even if you're a duffer and shank all your tee shots into the rough.

In addition:

Major Tournaments

Golf Organizations
USGA
    USGA Handicap Manual
    Guide to the Rules on Clubs and Balls
MSGA (Maine State Golf Association)
MSGA (Maine Seniors' Golf Association)
WMSGA Women's Maine State Golf Association)
The Golf Maine Association

Golf Magazines
Golf Magazine
Golf Digest
Travel + Leisure Golf
Golf Tips Magazine

Rules
10 Golden Rules (Golf Magazine, 1982)

Golf Media
ESPN Golf
Golf Page (Washington Post)

Sports Medicine
UPMC Sports Medicine (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
Rotator Cuff Tear (UPMC)
The Physician and Sportsmedicine Journal

Resorts
Golf Resorts Online

More Golf Links
The Maine Golf Trail (Over 140 courses listed)
ABC's of Golf (online by Mark Blakemore)
The Golf Channel
The Golf Gene (NY Times, August 20, 2005)

Golf Questions, Glossary
Glossary (from the "ABC's of Golf")

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