The rules of golf can be quite extensive and this meets certain guidelines and rules that most regulations on sports does not have. One rule that has the golf that most sports do not have are the definitions that are badly needed to know them to be on the field.

Any of these words used are:

- Referee: addresses to accompany players to abide by the rules and take care to correct their mistakes, also they can not interfere in the game.

- Bando: players who are partners may be up for a duet.

- Ball holed: the ball is holed when it is inside the hole.

- Caddy: the person carrying the bag of the player, it can be used by several players or serve only one.

- Committee: the group of persons involved in the competition.

- Foracaddie: is a person who is assigned by the committee to indicate the position of the balls to players.

- Green: This is the ground of the hole being played.

- Honor is the side that has the right to play first.

- Putt Line: This is the line where the player takes the ball after the green.

- Observer: a person appointed by the committee, this post is to assist the referee in the correction of rules.

- Tour: this is all except the green field, obstacles and place of departure.

These words should be used properly within the field of play but it will be breaking the rules.

Boom that reached both the King James II was forced to enact an Act in 1457 that put limits on their practice to prevent people from playing during that time should be spent practicing archery (the first written document in which refers to golf). However, the law was not very successful.

The Scots, however, ignored this and other similar laws and early sixteenth century, King James IV of Scotland, said the game of golf.

His granddaughter Mary, later Mary I Stuart, took the game to France, where he was educated. His assistants on the golf course were known as the Cadets ( ’students’), the term was adopted later in Scotland and England and became a caddy and caddy.

The first reference to golf in the town of St. Andrews historical data from 1552.

Around the year 1600, caused a furore in golf’s aristocracy in London. By then, ladies and gentlemen playing in costume gala in the heart of the city, which broke doors, windows, … and injured bystanders.

The authorities had to intervene to protect the public and forced the players to play on the field.

In the eighteenth century were the first golf associations such as the Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers (1744), the St. Andrews Society of Golfers (1754), which in 1834 took its current name, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St . Andrews granted by King William and the Royal Blackheath (1766), near London, where they agreed to set a date for the introduction of golf in England in 1608.

The precursor to the British Open, the first major, was played for the first time in 1860 and was won by Willie Park. The legend of Father Tom Morris came when he won event in 1862, 1864 and 1867. But his son, Young Tom Morris, was the first great champion to get the tournament four consecutive times since 1869. Other illustrious winners were JH Taylor in 1894 and Harry Vardon in 1896. Together with James Braid, these three men were known as the Great Triumvirate.

In Spain, the first golf club was established in Las Palmas (Gran Canaria) in 1891.

In 1894, established the American Association of Golf (United States Golf Association – USGA) to regulate the game in United States and Mexico. In addition to rules dealing with the handicap system. The U.S. Open women’s U.S. Amateur was inaugurated in 1895.

In 1921, the R & A imposed a limit on the size and weight of the golf ball that produced a separation between the game in Europe and America (regulated by the USGA). Most of these differences were resolved in 1951 when the two associations agreed to common rules. However, the differences in the ball was not regulated until 1988. Today golf worldwide is regulated jointly by the R & A and USGA. Every four years the amendments agreed to be published in the Official Rules of Golf.

The field at Augusta National opened in 1933. The first U.S. Masters, and played there in 1934 and was won by Horton Smith. Gary Player of South Africa broke the American monopoly to win in 1961.

Possibly the most famous golf coup who has never held that Alan Shephard hitting a ball on the moon in 1971, which was seen by an audience of millions of people around the world. Does this golf the first sport played in the space?. The stick that is used in the museum of the USGA.

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