I haven’t written a beginner style post in awhile so I thought I’d talk today about an important part of the golf course: the fairway.
The fairway is your direct path to the green. Its grass is cut very, very close to the ground (at a good course, that is) and is usually anywhere from a half to a full inch in height. The area on the sides of the fairway is called the rough and its grass is much longer than the grass you find on a fairway (again, at a good course).
Another physical trait of a fairway to consider is its width. One holes above a Par 3, the narrower the fairway the more difficult the hole.