Recent Ryder Cup Results

2012: Europe 14.5, USA 13.5,

2010: Europe 14.5, U.S. 13.5

2008: U.S. 16.5, Europe 11.5

2006: Europe 18.5, U.S. 9.5

2004: Europe 18.5, U.S. 9.5

2002: Europe 15.5, U.S. 12.5

1999: U.S. 14.5, Europe 13.5

1997: Europe 14.5, U.S. 13.5

1995: Europe 14.5, U.S. 13.5

1993: U.S. 15, Europe 13

1991: U.S. 14.5, Europe 13.5

1989: Europe 14, U.S. 14 (Europe
retains the cup)

1987: Europe 15, U.S. 13

1985: Europe 16.5, U.S. 11.5

1983: U.S. 14.5, Europe 13.5

1981: U.S. 18.5, Europe 9.5

1979: U.S. 17, Europe 11

1977: U.S. 12.5, Great Britain & Ireland 7.5

1975: U.S. 21, Great Britain & Ireland 11

1973: U.S. 19, Great Britain & Ireland 13

1971: U.S. 18.5, Great Britain 13.5

Fact File

Ten fun facts about Golf

Fact 1:
The world's longest golf course is the international golf club which located in Massachusetts. The course has a lenght of about 7600 meters.

Fact 2:
The first golf balls used in the 16th century are believed to have been made out of wood.

Fact 3:
About 25% of the golfers in the world are women.

Fact 4:
The first official golf rules were established in Edinburgh by the Gentleman Golfers of Leith.

Fact 5:
The first ever recored hole-in-one was made in 1868 by Tom Morris at the Open Champinship in Prestwick, Scotland.

Fact 6:
The longest putt ever was as long as 114 meters.

Fact 7:
The number of dimples on a golf ball is either 336 for an American ball or 330 for a British ball.

Fact 8:
The youngest golfer to shoot a hole-in-one was the five year Coby Orr. It happened in Littleton, Colorado, in 1975.

Fact 9:
The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million.

Fact 10:
The word caddy comes from the French word for student, cadet, which is pronounced cad-DAY.

JUNIOR GOLF

Junior golf : In Ireland junior golf has come increasingly more common, There are a variety of provincial events e.g (Leinster boys , Munster boys, Irish boys) there are 4 main age groups under 13s under15s under 18s and under 21s. The winner is decided over 4 rounds of 18 holes in three days which means that everybody plays the first two days and the top half of the field playing qualify to the final day where there is 36 holes ( 2 rounds) played in one day. The lowest gross score wins the tournament.

 

There are two types of Panels , provincial and national, you first get onto a provincial panel by scoring well in events and having a low handicap, if you continue to achieve wins and get a lower handicap you will be put onto Ireland's elite national panel for your age group.you will then travel to different parts of the world competing in different events with the national team.

 

                    Here is a link to the head of Ireland's golf the GUI websites which stands for the Golfing Union Of Ireland

http://www.gui.ie/ 

Tournaments:
                              

                                           The European tour is a weekly tournament that runs from Thursday to Sunday it changes it country and venue every week for example there is the Irish Open the Spanish Open etc. The money leader throughout all the tournaments wins the Race To Dubai ( the final event is played in Dubai)

                                        

                                           The American tour is the same system but it just changes venue in America. The money leader at the end of the year wins the Fed Ex Cup.

                                         There are 4 major championships in the golfing world that are valued most by the players.

The British Open:

The Masters:

The PGA:

The US Open:

RULES: There are many different formats of playing golf, the most common would be singles stroke play. In this format you can play with up to four players per group but you are playing as an individual. You must swap score cards with your playing partners on the first tee this means that they will recore your score per hole and you will record theres to ensure that no one is cheating. Your score per hole is measured in the amount of shots that you take to get in the hole. At the end of the 18 holes you then total up your score and that sum is your gross score.

There are 3 types of holes a par 3 a par 4 and a par 5. If you score a 3 on a par 3 then you have got a par is you get a 4 on a par 3 it is a bogey and if you get a 5 on a par 3 it is a double bogey etc and if you get a 2 on a par 3 it is a birdie , this is the same system for each of the holes. How to calculate net score ? you take your gross score and take it away from your handicap, for example if i shoot a gross 82 and I play of 12 then i have shot a net 70. If the par of the course is 72 then you have shot two better than your handicap therefore it will be reduced. Men usualy start of with a handicap of 28 and women start at 36. 

Golf Courses of Ireland
With over 300 golf courses, is it any wonder that Ireland is green? World renowned courses dot the map but it is also the informal and friendly manner in which the game is played, that makes Irish golf a special experience. Ireland is home to some of the worlds greatest golf course for example Ballybunnion links, The K club and the world famous Old Head of Kinsale which is designed on a peninsula.  I have had the privilege to play all three of these courses and was an experience i will never forget.   The K club hosted the 2006 Ryder Cup which is now known as the greatest and most exciting Ryder Cup in Europe. 

INTRODUCTION

My name is Christopher Roche and this is my blog on the geography of golf. I am a student of welsey collge in dublin i am currently in fourth year.

      Golf is my favourite sport and for that reason i have chosen to do my blog on it. I have played golf for five years now and i am very intersted in it !