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* Golf is an outdoor sport in which a player hits a small hard ball over a long distance. It is played on a large area of land called a golf course. The course is divided into eighteen areas, called holes, of different lengths and difficulty. Players must hit the ball into a small cup in the ground at the end of each of the eighteen holes. Brief Introduction: An eighteen-hole golf course covers about sixty hectares.(公顷） It is usually at least six-thousand meters from the beginning of the first hole to the end of the eighteenth. The player who hits the ball the fewest number of times while playing the eighteen holes is the winner. (比杆赛:以最少的杆数打完规定一轮或数轮的比赛者为胜者。国际大赛和全国比赛均采用比杆赛) Players hit the ball with one of several kinds of golf clubs. The clubs are long thin sticks with different shapes at the end where the ball is hit. The kind of club used depends on the distance of the ball from the hole. Experts say that the modern game of golf began in Scotland. The first organized golf group began in 1744 in Edinburgh. It established the first written rules of the game. The popularity of golf spread from Scotland and England to parts of the British Commonwealth, including India and Canada. Experts say people may have played golf in the United States as early as the Seventeen-Hundreds. In 1894, the Golf Association of the United States was established. It served as the governing body for golf in the United States. It is now known as the United States Golf Association. In 1960, some American golfers formed the Professional Golfers Association, or P-G-A. Professional golfers earn money from playing golf and winning competitions. The P-G-A Tour includes forty-nine golf competitions each year in the United States, Scotland, Canada, Spain and Argentina. P-G-A Tour golfers travel for most of the year to play in many of these competitions. Origin: The most famous athlete in the United States is a young man named Tiger Woods. (泰格·伍兹),He has earned million