Golf norm

Golf norm. In the already religious “melancholy”, Lars von Trier, the heroine Kirste Dunst pisses a golf field, changes her husband on a golf field, sends his boss on a golf field, and finally meets his last hour on the golf field. All the main events of the film occur in space and on the golf field. Why - curious The New Times

- Welcome! Today is the first island tournament. There are already two holes.
So we can start.

“Herli, have you made a golf field?” We have above our heads, and you were engaged in such nonsense!

- A nonsense?! I noticed how nervous we became? Well, if we are all stuck here, just survive - not an option. We need rest and some entertainment. Otherwise, we are all sleeping while we are waiting for help.

- Okay ... we will play.

-I got out of my skin to calm people, did not sleep at night because of this, and Herli made a golf field, and everything came back to normal!

From the series "To stay alive." 10th episode of the first season

The legendary American golf
Tiger Woods on the strike line

Fat Hurley was not a golf architect. And even if it were, it was unlikely that he could build a full -fledged field: after a plane crash on a uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean, he just found a bag with clubs, a dozen balls, dug a fossa and stuck a stick with a rag at the end among the scattered fragments of the aircraft.

In general, in the history of golf it all began. The legend says that antique shepherds used rabbit holes as holes. And the sheep literally followed the lawn: their chewing herds remarkably “cut” the grass.

Regarding Golf’s homeland, opinions diverge. Sources indicate several countries where they practiced a similar game, only it was called differently: in Holland-Kolven, in Denmark-Kolf, in China-Sui-Gan. But still, objectively historical facts speak more in favor of Scotland. For example, the image of a person with a club dating back to the XIV century was preserved on the vintage of the Glochester Cathedral. The decree of the Scottish king Jacob II is known, who in 1457 forbade golf to play his soldiers: Golf distracted them from military training, and they were the British beat more than once. The document of 1552 mentions the game in the golf in St. Andrews. The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of ST Andrews located there is one of the old, respected and famous golf clubs in the world. I must say, now R&A - “royal and ancient” is an ordinary house, which are many in the city, and if it did not stand on the outskirts, almost next to the North Sea, would be completely lost. But it is he who is the legislator of modern golf, all the largest tournaments are held according to the rules established by him. He is a celebrity in itself. Closer to the golf you can no longer get. Around the club house there are several benches with FOR MEMBERS ONLY signs. By the way, membership in the club is not sold, and to sit on these benches, that is, to become a member of the club, you can only for some completely unthinkable recommendations.

By the way, St. Andrei, the patron saint of Scotland, according to legend, himself was not averse to driving the ball around the field ...

Under a nut

So, first Golf could afford everything, we will remember the shepherds. The keys and balls were made from the hand of the tree. Then, the cow leather balls with a goose feathers were inhabited, they were very expensive - more expensive than clubs. The year 1848 became revolutionary, when a ball from Guttarchi appeared: such a ball had an ideal round shape, could fly and roll straight, was said, and, importantly, its cost fell significantly. The game went to the masses again.

The clubs have been improved, since 1826, gycoria - walnut tree began to be used for their manufacture. The clubs of those times are called Hickry. Having great rigidity, they allowed the players to significantly increase the length of the blow.

The golf-anrena also changed: the former clearings for grazing sheep over time turned into full-fledged fields with all the appropriate elements-Ferves, Rafams, Greens, Bankers. (Do I need to decipher these magically sounding words? It's like poems for someone who hears them for the first time!)

The first recognized golf architects were the best players: for example, the legendary Tom Morris-Sr. (he also made clubs and balls) or John Henry Taylor and James Braid, who, together with the other Golphist Harry Vardon, made up a trio known as the Great Triumvirate.

Great Triumvirate. Sleet to the right: John Henry Taylor, James Bradey and Harry Varton

Golf clubs (the first The Gentlemen Golfers of Leith appeared in 1744 in Edinburgh) contributed to the unification of people in interests, the development of etiquette, bringing elements of regularity and contesting and the formation of its culture. In other words, gentlemen, lovers of club and ball, have learned a good tradition of grouping not only by pubs, but also in golf clubs.

A blow from the cosmos

Golf seized all new territories, walking from Scotland around the world. In the middle of the XVIII century, a Royal Blackheath golf club opens near London. The first fields are being built and clubs are opened in India (1820), Australia (1870), South Africa (1885), USA (1888), Japan (1903).

In the last third of the 20th century, in 1971, Golf’s expansion reaches the highest point: a golf club (and not a baseball bat!) Braced the American astronaut Alan Shepard with him to make the highest blow in history.

Cosmonaut Alan Shepard grabbed a golf club onto the moon

In our open spaces in the 20th century, it was not up to golf. But a little more than 20 years ago he reached Russia, although it seemed once that it was easier for him to reach the moon. The first golf club-the 9-moon Moscow City Golf Club-opened in 1990. The second, with a field for 18 holes, Moscow Country Club in Nakhabino near Moscow, in 1994.

Only the trouble is that our golf season is too short and is now almost over. Therefore, our golphists in the late autumn and winter have to move to warm Europe, where neat patch of emerald fields delight the eyes of not only players, but also passing by curious tourists.

Azart and drive

Recall the goal of golf. In addition to the competition with the opponent and the fight against oneself; In addition to the pleasure of contemplation of the environment; In addition to relaxed communication with the partners in the round on the field and behind the scotch cup in a restaurant (which is certainly present in every self-respecting club house, which is necessarily in every decent golf club)-so, in addition to these unconditional values, the purpose of the game in the golf is to roll the ball into the hole as possible as possible as possible as possible as possible as possible as possible as possible as possible as possible as possible as possible. The holes, as a rule, are 18.

Golf is an exciting intrigue. Many of those who have never picked up a club, think that this game is a monotonous, boring walk from the hole to the hole. But having tried once and another, they are convinced of the opposite. This is excitement and drive, often worse than the Las Vegas casino and American slides. “Golf is an undeniable king of sports games,” said Woodhaus writer.

Golf occupied a special niche that for one reason or another, no other sport came out. The races on the yachts are too elitist. Football is too democratic. From the point of view of golf marketing is the premium segment service allowing for the mass audience.

Indeed, everyone played and plays the ball. The so -called ordinary people - for twenty in municipal fields, billionaires - in closed clubs, celebrities (like, say, Andy Garcia) - in their own, and the champions are on world famous arenas, for example, in the Augusta National Golf Club, where The Masters are traditionally held, the first and one of the main tournaments season.

The design of the fields is truly beautiful, their location is truly unlimited. They are in the forest, in the desert, in the mountains, next to the ocean. The boundaries are destroyed. Sometimes public ones: there is Green Zone Golf Club, the nine holes of which are in Finland, and the other nine in Sweden ... All the most beautiful views in Melancholy are a cosmos at the beginning and a golf floor, and even without Kirste. Look above, further ...

On the field - Kim Jong Ir

Golf is a sport of shepherds and politicians. Moreover, the latter “golf bugs” (according to Scottish legend, a person “gets sick” with a game from the bite of the invisible “gulf bug” - Golf Rug), bites regardless of their views and beliefs.

The leaders of the Cuban Revolution
Che Guevara (left) and Fidel Castro
did not shy of an aristocratic game

Eisenhower played on the lawn in front of the White House. There is a famous black and white photo in which young Castro and Che are captured with clubs on the field.

Sometimes Golf directly influenced the fate of crowned persons: for example, the fact that, a few days after the death of her husband, Lord Darnley, did not play golf, which imposed suspicions of his murder, not the last role in the sentence of Maria Stuart.

Yulia Tymoshenko, when he was the prime minister, called Viktor Yanukovych, a golf fan, to forget about the game and think about the people in the media. Is this the main reason for its current location?

In the Moscow Country Club, the President’s Cup has been held since Yeltsin times. But neither Boris Nikolaevich, nor Vladimir Vladimirovich, nor Dmitry Anatolyevich, carried away by other sports, never honored the tournament - the game and further planting of symbolic trees traditionally occurred and occur without them.

But the well-known businesswoman Elena Baturina and her husband often hazel with the clubs in the clearings of the Moscow City Golf Club, where Yuri Luzhkov even once created Hole-In-One-he fell into the hole from one blow.

But Golphista Luzhkov is very far from golfist Kim Jong Ira. A couple of years ago, the amazing news flew around the world: the leader of North Korea made eleven Hole-In-things in one round! The probability of two Hole-in-One in one batch is 1 to 67 million, but that just on the shoulder of the next “father” of the nation!

Higher and further

Sitting behind the wheel, we see the car that drives ahead, we look at the subway at the passengers or to our device, on the street - under our feet, at home - into the screen or wall. When playing sports, we carefully look at the tennis grid, at the basketball basket, to the gate stake or we are monitoring the enemy’s movement along the tatami. We do not look into the distance. And golf is always a look into the distance. Calm, not flickering, not quickly, not immediately, not running ... Maybe that is why the golf is so unpopular with us? We need everything quickly and at once.

1.7% of the sushi of the planet is occupied by golf fields. For the civilized world, Golf is a long time. Like “sorry”, stepping on the leg, or not to the oncoming lane. The norm of life. And of course, the author agrees with the conclusion of Jack Shepard, a wonderful character, “stay alive”: “Play golf, and everything will return to normal.”

Not to mention the fact that almost everyone will survive.