Golf in Greetham, Rutland

Golf is a sport in which a player, using many types of clubs including a driver and a putter, hits a ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not use a standardized playing area; rather, the game is played on golf "courses" (at golf clubs), each one of which has a unique design and typically consists of either 9 or 18 holes. Golf is defined in the Rules of Golf as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."

Golf has increasingly turned into a spectator game, with several different levels of professional and amateur tours in many regions of the world. People such as Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Lorena Ochoa and Annika Sorenstam have become well recognized sports figures across the world. Sponsorship has also become a huge part of the game and players often earn more from their sponsorship contracts than they do from the game itself.

A handicap is a numerical measure of an amateur golfer's ability to play golf over 18 holes. Handicaps can be applied either for stroke play competition or match play competition. In either competition, a handicap generally represents the number of strokes above par that a player will achieve on an above average day.

Find Out More About Golf At Greetham Valley Golf Club In Greetham, Rutland

Greetham is a village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England with a population of about 450.

It lies on the B668 between the county town of Oakham and the A1 and on the north-south Viking Way long distance footpath running between the Humber Bridge and Oakham.

The parish church of St Mary the Virgin has a fine spire, which can be seen from some distance.

Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust owns Merry's Meadows nature reserve, a SSSI in the parish which is important for species characteristic of unimproved grassland. To the east of the village just before the Sewstern Lane junction, just north of the B668 is Greetham Lime Quarry owned by the Dickerson Group of Waterbeach. .

The village is home to three pubs, the Plough, the Black Horse Inn and the Wheatsheaf, all on the B668. A garden centre lies to the west of the village and to the east is the Greetham Valley golf course. On the A1 near Stretton, was a former pub called the Olde Greetham Inn, now owned by Construction Interior Design. Towards Cottesmore on the right is the Greetham Garden Centre with Penny's Tearoom.