Playing golf - terms and rules

One of the difficulties that may be encountered starting to follow or play golf is to disentangle between the terms (almost all in English) used to indicate the type of bat, different strokes, different areas of the course, scoring, etc. .. We try to give some information on the following terms are used to define the different areas of the course, unpretentious completeness, but just to clarify a bit 'ideas even to those who follow golf on television! Let's start from the end: the green is the area closest the hole where the grass is very short and meticulously edited to ensure maximum accuracy in the final shot, outside of this there is the fairway where the grass is a bit 'more high and surrounded by the rough area out of the path that should be followed to get the ball from the Starting in the pit.
The route is also often accompanied by obstacles, bunkers, sandy areas that are best avoided, close to the green, and the water hazard, depressions with water that is indispensable to climb over the ball, unless penalties. Finally there is the tee that indicates both the area bounded where to place the ball for the first shot, and the small accessory that is placed below it to make the shot.
In general, the golf course is also defined by the length of the path that is identified with the number of holes (9 or 18) and determines consequently its length, from a minimum of 1830 meters for a golf 9 holes at a minimum of 3660 for an 18.
Curiosity about the game of golf
Whether it is a sport that makes precision, patience and quiet its strengths as everyone knows, but really curious is the their vocabulary of this discipline, which is incredibly detailed as well as its regulation. Did you know, for example that dimples that lie on the surface of the balls have a name? Yes, they're called dimples. And if your ball ends up in a bunker (obstacle which consists in a sandy area of the route) is said to have made a fried egg and is what it's like to be poor ball in the middle of the sand! Have you ever heard mention of Pitch & Putt? It 'a shortened version of the classic game of golf: the pits are close together and consequently all par 3 (maximum of 3 shots are required to send the ball into the hole) and you can carry on field only 3 clubs contrary to standard games in which they allowed 14.
Vaguely ironic term Air Shot, which in other sports would call a "smooth": the intention was to take the ball, but in reality it is blatantly missed, hitting the air!
Another curiosity is not about the specific terms, but a specific risk you take in this sport; one would think the maximum at balls out of the way and actually this is a risk, but unfortunately many golfers are struck dead by lightning on field: the amount of metal present on the route causes often are depleted on the poor golfer holding the bat; to overcome that there are special alarms that are launched in the imminence of a storm to immediately stop the race in progress.