It's often necessary to hit a second shot to really appreciate the first one.

Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals.

Handicap: an allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club.

Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.

Bets lengthen putts and shorten drives.

A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.