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Rio Olympic 2016 | Watch Olympics Golf Live 2016

Rio Olympic 2016 | Watch Olympics Golf

The golf becomes an Olympic sport in the games of Rio de Janeiro 2016, the last time the sport was Olympic was in 1904 at the Olympic Games in St. Louis, United States. 

The golf is a sport that is practiced outdoor players, individually, use sticks specially designed to propel a small, hard ball over a field called travel or links. The aim is to advance the ball down the course in the fewest strokes possible. 

A golf course is divided into 18 sections , called holes. The usual route is from 5900-6400 m; the holes may vary in length from 90 to about 550 meters. Each hole has at one end a starting point known as tee and on the other, embedded in the ground and marked with a flag, a drink or cylindrical container, called a hole, inside which to get the ball to complete the game each hole. The cup is made ​​of metal or plastic, with a diameter of 10.8 cm and a depth of at least 10 centimeters.

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The game of golf begins on the first tee, a flat area of mown grass, where each player tries to hit the ball onto the fairway or main part of the route, a strip very carefully ground, 27 to 90 m wide, in grass which has been cut so that the ball has a good surface for the game. On both sides of the fairway the rough, which are areas of land covered with tall grass, bushes or trees and sometimes contains rough areas of dirt or mud (mud), so players must use all his skill is positioned to play his punches; in the absence of natural obstacles they can be constructed artificially, such as bunkers, also called sand traps, which are made ​​depressions in the ground filled with fine sand; hills, embankments and water obstacles such as ditches, streams, ponds or lakes are also created. On the far side of the fairway from the tee, the green, an area of grass mown very short surrounding the hole, the surface is designed to facilitate the progress of the ball into the hole after it has been found . hit gently with a stroke called putt 

addition to putt, especially stroke used on the green, there are two main to play each hole punches: the drive, which is a long stroke made ​​from the tee to the fairway and the approach or approach shot to the green. Both types require accurate. Shots of different lengths are made ​​with different clubs, depending on the distance to be covered and the lie or rest position of the ball. A standard game is played with 14 clubs, the maximum allowed take a tournament, divided into two main types: those known as woods, with heads of wood or metal, and called irons, with steel head and are usually forged chrome.  

the rods of both types are usually made ​​of metal or glass fibers, graphite or similar materials. Previously, each club was known by name, but now most is designated by a number; only the putter, an iron, has retained its name. Woods are usually numbered from one to five (today there are seven and nine), irons ranging from one to nine. In addition to the numbered irons are special iron, sand wedge and pitching wedge, used in short bursts to raise much the ball in the air and limit your shot when it reaches the ground.  

The golf clubs are used in various ways according it wants to get away, height or precise positioning of the ball; the angle at which the impact surface on the club shaft is placed determines the trajectory of the ball. For departures from the tee and long shots in the fairway woods numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and the long irons of the numbers 1, 2 and 3. For the initial stroke of each hole they are used, ball is placed on a stand of wood or plastic, which is also called tee, players usually carry in your pocket and lifts the ball above ground 1.3 cm, allowing the clubhead to hit the ball with maximum power. To play long and low blows in the fairway wood number 2 is used, and long and high bumps are used the numbers 3, 4 and 5.  

Other approach shots to the green, usually shorter, are played with irons. Approaches to or shorter approach shots, known as chips, the same irons are used but with a swing, hitting style, shorter. The putter is only used in the green or green necklace, ring very short mown grass around the green.