Golf game
Golf original in Scotland and has been played for several centuries in the British Isles. Golf is an open air game which is played on a tract of land designated as the course. The courses consist of a series of holes. Golf is a game where the players hit ball into a series of holes by successive strokes, using various clubs. Standard golf course has 18 holes of various lengths. There are two main types of competition: stroke play ad match play.
In stroke play, the player who completes a round in the fewest strokes wins the match: in match play the winner is the one who wins the most holes in a round.
The game is governed by the royal and ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (R & A) founded in 1754.
*After cricket, Golf is the biggest money spinners in India.
Famous players
Arjun Atwals, JyotiRandhawa, the top Asian Golfer Vijaya Kumar, Arjun Singh, Vijay Singh( Fiji) Jeev Millkha Singh the Indian Golf icon.
Jack Nicklaus (USA), the Golfine great, winner of record 18 majors titles, tiger woods (USA) in all, 11 majors titles. The greatest was golfer first golfer to win four grand slams consecutively.
Snooker
Snooker is a variation of English Billiards and is played on a billiards table with 15 red balls, 6 variously colored balls –a yellow (worth 2 points), green (3 points) brown (4 points), blue (5 points), pink (6 points) and black (7 points) and a white cue ball. Players try pocket first the red and then the non-red balls scoring one point for each red ball and the number value of the others.
Famous players
*Wilson Jines is 12 times national Amateur Billiards Champion of India; winner of three world titles.
*Michael Joseph Ferreira is three times world Amateur billiards Champion.
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