
As golfers start playing regularly, they want to improve their game and then measure how they stand among their friends, coworkers and other golfers. Golf clubs and golf associations often offer tournaments and competitions to determine championships. Some are straight-score tournaments, some involve handicaps and others are best-ball championships. Here's how to enter.
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Steve Silverman is an award-winning writer, covering sports since 1980. Silverman authored The Minnesota Vikings: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Who's Better, Who's Best in Football -- The Top 60 Players of All-Time, among others, and placed in the Pro Football Writers of America awards three times. Silverman holds a Master of Science in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism.