Golf courses can be seen as a fairly simple, just some grass, some trees, some water, some sand, and a hole where a ball goes. However much of the public does not take into account the amount of work and preparation that goes into creating a golf course. Courses are typically designed by a specially trained architect and then the head greens keepers must have a strong background in agriculture/botany in order to know how to properly keep the grass well groomed. Many times the courses are manicured in the early morning before the first person tees off.
Like stated before people must pay in order to gain access to golf courses, therefore they want their golfing experience to be up to par. This often times means that the players will enforce rules/norms with other people playing in order to maintain the sanctity of the game. Some examples of this would be raking the sand after your ball goes in it, letting faster players play through, and repairing ball marks on the greens. However if there are no other players on the course to enforce these rules there is sometimes a course ranger to patrol the course looking to end any sources of hooliganism. What seems as a very simple game holds many deeper meanings within it that unless you are a casual player of the game you would be blind to it.
By Alan Miller
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