He or she places a tee straight into the ground and then places a golf ball on top of it. He or she then swings the club and hits the ball. Each player's goal is to get the ball into the first hole on the course. After the first player's turn, the rest of the players take turns in succession, hitting their balls into each hole around the course. The player who had the lowest score on the last hole usually starts playing the next hole first.
Every game has to have some sort of scoring system, and golf is no exception.
Score is kept in the game of golf by how many strokes it takes to hit the ball into every hole. While it's hard enough to hit a small white ball into a sunken hole, there are hazards along the course which make this goal even more difficult to obtain. There are bodies of water, trees, shrubs, sand-filled traps, and roughs. When your ball is ina hazard, you may not touch the ground or the water with your club. You can choose not to play your golf ball, but you must add a penalty stroke to your total score.