Calf stretch. 1  Place your hands on a wall for balance. 2  You can also do this with your hands on the back of a chair, a countertop, or a tree. 3  Step back with your left leg. 4  Keep the leg straight, and press your left heel into the floor. 5  Press your hips forward, bending your right leg slightly.
Everything you need to know about taking up golf from the editors of Golf Digest. We get it. Golf can seem terribly complicated to the uninitiated. So many rules, so many different kinds of clubs. And then there's the lingo: birdies, bogeys, bump-and-runs.At Golf Digest, this may be the language we speak every day, but we also know it's a language that can scare prospective golfers off before they ever pick up a club.That's where this online beginner's guide comes in.o many rules, so many different kinds of clubs. And then there's the lingo: birdies, bogeys, bump-and-runs. At Golf Digest, this may be the language we speak every day, but we also know it's a language that can scare prospective golfers off before they ever pick up a club.
1 In this scoring method, your golf score is made not of the amount of strokes you get per hole, but the amount of net points you get per hole. 2  If your net score is equal to the par, you get 2 points; if you hit one over par (a bogey), you get 1 point. handicap takes into account your previous scores throughout a the same previous round of golf, and you can play the game while keeping your handicap in mind. (The goal is to do better than you previously did.). 1  If you want to get fancy with the handicap, then you can play using the Stableford method.