Golf competitions – an understanding

Once, the globe’s ideal golf enthusiasts were all British– typically Scottish. Considering that the very early the twentieth century, however, a lot of the leading golf players have actually been American.

Because of this, the largest golf event on the planet is the PGA (Professional Golf Association) Tour, a collection of occasions hung on several American golf links. This is where the globe’s finest golf enthusiasts play, for a leading reward of nearly a million bucks, in addition to thousands of smaller sized rewards (‘handbags’, in the golf lingo). There are extremely couple of golf players on the planet that play golf full time, yet the leading gamers can make millions, as well as the leading couple of hundred can all at the very least make a small living, many thanks to the method golf cash prize is separated up.

As the PGA Tour is held mainly in America, the European Tour has actually been pushing on with non-American golf enthusiasts in recent times, as well as is currently extensively thought about to be the second competition.

The various other crucial events are the Opens, consisting of the United States Open and also the British Open. While Tours are just open up to specialist golf enthusiasts, Opens can be gone into by anybody that pays the entry charge, which suggests that countless individuals can attempt their good luck each year, as well as the future generation of golf enthusiasts can conveniently obtain their beginning. The victors of the Opens every year will certainly be welcomed right into the Tours, to complete at the following degree, yet there is absolutely nothing quiting the Tour pros from going into the Opens, and also many do.

These are just one of the most well-known of the golf events: there is no lack of smaller sized, independent events, and also each of the large golf playing nations has its very own. Golf enthusiasts that are british or not american will certainly frequently advance by very first having fun in their residence nation’s smaller sized Open competition, and afterwards proceeding to the larger Opens, prior to with any luck being approved right into among the huge Tours.