How to Improve Your Golf Game with a Few First-Tee Strategies
The best golf players start every round with a plan for how they’re going to approach the course. This brief overview of “tactical golf” gives you three common situations; you’ll come across each one at [more…]
How to Effectively Practice Your Golf Game
Nearly half of high-handicap golfers don’t practice. You can’t expect to improve your golf game if you don’t put some time in. Practice can be fun. You can modify the schedule to fit your goals and your [more…]
How to Follow Proper Golf Etiquette
In golf, unlike almost any of the trash-talking sports you can watch on TV, sportsmanship is paramount. Golf is an easy game to cheat at, so every player is on his or her honor. But golf also has its own [more…]
How to Use the Golf Handicap System
The United States Golf Association constructed the handicap system to level the playing field for everyone. Golf handicap calculations use an esoteric system of “course rating” and something called “slope” [more…]
How to Keep Score during a Golf Game
Scoring in golf allows you to easily see how you’re doing. Every course you play has a score card that tells you each hole’s length, its par, and its rating relative to the other holes. You fill in your [more…]
How to Play Penalty Shots in Golf
Penalty shots are an unfortunate part of every golfer’s life. You may find yourself in a variety of penalty situations during a game of golf. Here are the most common ones: [more…]
Online Golf Course Guides
You can take a virtual tour of about a zillion golf courses. Web sites carry descriptions, layouts, and score cards for countless golf courses around the world. From the comfort of your own desk chair, [more…]
How to Improve Your Game with Golf Simulators
Electronic golf simulators have gotten so good that they’re almost as much fun as the real thing. What really sets simulators apart from all other virtual versions of golf is that you get to swing a club [more…]
How to Find a Golf Organization
Wherever you live, you can probably find a golf organization in your area. Some states are more golf-oriented than others, but you’ll find golf schools all over the country — and all over the world. [more…]
How to Establish Your Golf Swing Plane
The swing plane, at its most basic, is the path your golf club’s shaft follows when you swing. Swing plane can get complicated — especially if you want to cover all the possible variations in the plane [more…]
How to Find Golf Gear Online
Cyberspace offers a plethora of great golf pro shops selling golf-related gear. Every major manufacturer (and even some unusual minor ones) has a presence on the Web, so don’t hesitate to check out such [more…]
Medal Favorites in Curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Curling is a sport that's gaining in popularity around the country and, in fact, American teams are often among the medal favorites in the Winter Olympics. These are the teams that stand out as medal hopefuls [more…]
The Top Figure Skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Figure skating is always one of the most popular events at the Winter Olympics. Picking out the figure skating medal favorites from the field of hopefuls can be a challenge. But with new judging requirements [more…]
Fielding Positions in the Game of Cricket
Don’t know your deep fine leg from your silly mid off? Never fear. This diagram shows you all the commonly used fielding positions in cricket. The figure assumes that a right-handed batsman is standing [more…]
Umpiring Signals and What They Mean in Cricket
The officials in charge of a game of cricket are called umpires, and they have a whole array of signals to indicate the decisions they make during the course of a game. These are the most important. [more…]
The LBW Law Made Simple
For a batsman in a cricket match to be given out leg before wicket (LBW) a strict set of rules apply, to do with where the ball has struck the pitch and then hit the batsman’s pad. This figure takes you [more…]
International Game Formats for Cricket
International cricket has a variety of the game for everyone, from the five-day tactical tension of the Test match to the bat-swinging fireworks of Twenty20. The following are a few simple clues to help [more…]
Cricket For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Cricket is basically a simple sport. Each team takes its turn to bat (scoring runs) and bowl (getting the opposition batsmen out). The team with the most runs at the end wins. Unless the game is drawn, [more…]
How Women’s Field Lacrosse Differs from Men’s Field Lacrosse
Women’s field lacrosse is exploding in popularity — there are three times as many women’s collegiate lacrosse programs today as there were in 1990. The women’s field game differs from the men’s field game [more…]
The Field Lacrosse and Box Lacrosse Positions
The easiest way to know the positions on the field and in the arena is to know the responsibilities that come with them. In a nutshell, players have three main assignments that come with their positions [more…]
Lacrosse For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Lacrosse is one of the fastest-growing sports around. But it’s actually three games in one: men’s field lacrosse, women’s field lacrosse, and box lacrosse. The women’s field game differs from men’s field [more…]
The Football Pitch, or Field of Play
If you’re going to understand football as those in the UK see it, you need to find your way around the pitch the game is played on (or playing field in American English). This diagram is here to help. [more…]
Explaining the Offside Law: Law 11
The offside law (Law 11) is the most argued-over law wherever in the world the game of football is played, even though it’s pretty simple. Here’s how it works. [more…]
Refereeing Signals in Football
The referee controls a game of football, implementing the laws of the game (whether the sport is played in the United States or the United Kingdom). Perhaps no other team sport leaves such a wide margin [more…]
Stretching for Football Warmup
Different players in the UK have their own personal stretching routines, depending on their physical make-up. A qualified fitness instructor can plan a bespoke programme for you, but there’s no need to [more…]
