Tahniah bagi skuad Golf Mozac di MSSM

               MOZAC telah menghantar 8 orang pemain di Kejohanan Golf MSSM 2013 bertempat di Ayer Keroh, Country Resort. Nurfarah Qistina Roslan telah muncul Naib Johan dalam pertandingan tersebut. Tahniah diucapkan. Tahniah kepada semua guru dan pelajar yang mengharumkan nama sekolah untuk semua pertandingan yang disertai !

Interesting Golf Health Facts

ENDORPHINS

Not only is playing golf physically good for you, it also releases powerful, natural, mood enhancing endorphins into your bloodstream. Just having a stroll in the open air and enjoying a round of golf with your friends helps to make you feel better.

EXERCISE

Let’s take a look at Tiger Woods. He transformed from a gangling 21-year-old into a chiselled 28-year-old. His training involves weight machines, free weights, dumbbells, medicine balls and various items for stretching and balancing, such as inflatable rubber “physio” balls and foam cylinders.

For us, there’s a lot of walking in golf which is great for the

cardiovascular system and lungs. In addition to speeding up your metabolism, it also helps to lower harmful cholesterol. A round of golf burns an average of 300 calories for 1 hour while carrying clubs.

BONE HEALTH

Weight Bearing exercises create long, lean muscle mass, which helps support a strong skeleton. This type of exercise helps to prevent bone degeneration, including osteoporosis. Carry your clubs to include weight bearing in your golf game.

STRESS REDUCTION & CHOLESTEROL

Golf reduces stress and cholesterol. A single game of golf (about 4 hours) can burn up to a thousand calories, which is a great way to stay in shape and burn off excess fat. A game of golf gets the blood flowing and increases your heart rate.

BRAIN POWER

Studies have shown that new brain cells are created and more oxygen is pumped to the brain when you are active in some kind of aerobic exercise. Playing golf can help boost your brain power and walking the course will help even more. Golf constantly challenges your mind in terms of coordination, concentration, visualization, estimation, strategy, preparing for and practicing each shot.

SLEEP BETTER

Regular exercise, like golfing will make you fall asleep faster and remain in a deep sleep for a long period of time. Playing a round of golf in the day will likely increase the quality of your rest at night.

SELF CONFIDENCE & FOCUS

Golf requires you to train your mind to become focused and every success builds your self confidence.  Walking in nature and the success of getting even a par is always a joy!

Why You Should Play Golf

           You might have noticed that most of the terms in golf are in English. The terms are standardised and not translated to any other language (or you’ll have a hard time with your caddies). You can’t call out ‘helang’ for an eagle nor ‘burung’ for a birdie! Thus, Golf is a sport that promotes your English language proficiency.

YOU NEED THE EXERCISE             

Golf is one of the best non-impact exercises with about an average of 4 miles of green which is a good walk in anybody’s book. Golf may not be the only exercise you should partake in as you’ll surely need some anaerobic exercise such as running or swimming to boost your heart rate. But as you play more golf and you want to progress, you’ll start focusing on your exercise away from the course more seriously. Try a stretching routine twice a day or go for a run on other days.

CHALLENGE UNRESTRICTED BY AGE AND ABILLITY

Golf is surely the most accessible sport. Well, apart from maybe darts or fishing! (Are you sure they are really sports?) Can u list down any other sport where a 10 year old can tee it up against an 80 year old (thanks to the handicap system) for a great competitive round of golf?

One of the interesting facts about golf is that it is a sport you can take up now and if you maintain reasonably healthy, you’d still be playing in your eighties. Most golfers love playing against their dad, mother or their brothers or sisters.  The handicap system allows a novice to give an experienced player a good game in a competition of golf.

GOLF IS NOT AS EXPENSIVE AS YOU THINK

Yes of course and you certainly do have time for it! Most would think that golf is too dear and they just don’t have time for it. Let’s do the math here…

A decent set of clubs and bag would only cost around RM900 and you’ll need golf shoes which can be found at around RM200. If you don’t want to join a club you can find a round of golf at many decent places for as low as RM50 depending on the course. So if you add this all up over the course of a year where you play for 4 hours once a week, you’ll spend of RM3500.

BUT if you were to play four hours once a week, your total playing time over 12 months would be 192 hours, so the actual hourly spend comes in at around RM18 per hour!!! Now surely you know that there are not many forms of entertainment these days that cost less than that. You only have to buy your equipment once and you can certainly search around for cheap rounds of golf in different courses.

So it comes down to the question of time. If you claim that you don’t have four hours at the weekend to spend on golf-RUBBISH! You’d be back home by midday after a round of golf.

There’s no better way to spend a beautiful weekend morning than having a good leisurely round of golf with your family and friends.

SOCIALIZING AND FRIENDSHIP

Apart from the leisure golf sessions with your family, most competitions would pit your skills against each other and the course. However, you would still have 2 or 3 playing partners who join you for the round and share the task of scoring. 4 hours of golf will lead to many opportunities to get acquainted make some good friends from spending time on the golf course. There is also plenty of time for socializing at the cafe after a round of golf and often other social activities taking place at the golf club that members can join in with.

History of Golf

                Golf as we know it today started off as a game played during the 15th century in the Kingdom of Fife on the eastern coast of Scotland. Players back then would hit a pebble around a natural course of rabbit runs, sand dunes or tracks using a stick or any sort of primitive club.

                Historians believe that Kolven (a game originated in the Netherland, using heavy curved bats and a ball between two poles on an indoor court) and Chole (or Crossage En Plaine a cross between hockey and golf from Belgium) from Belgium influenced the game. The latter was introduced into Scotland in 1421. These games and countless others are stick and ball games, but they are missing that vital ingredient that is unique to golf – THE HOLE. Whatever the argument, there can be no dispute that Scotland gave birth to the game we know as golf today.

                The Sport was actually banned in 1457 by the Scottish parliament of King James II while Scotland was preparing to defend itself against an English invasion. Tha ban was instilled because of the population’s neglect of military training while enthusiastically pursuing golf and soccer. The parliament reaffirmed the ban in 1470 and 1491 although largely ignored by the people. The ban was lifted in 1502 with the Treaty of Glasgow and King James IV (James 1 of England) himself took up the sport.

                Throughout the 16th century, Golf's prominence and fame rapidly spread owing to it's royal endorsement. King Charles I popularised golf in England while Mary Queen of Scots, who was French, brought the game to France while she studied there. Interestingly, her helpers who were the French Military or known in French as cadets gave birth to the term ‘caddie’.

                Leith near Edinburgh was the premier golf course of that time. Leith was the scene of the first international golf match in 1682 when two English noblemen were beaten by the Duke of York and George Patterson playing for Scotland.