Golf is a sport in which an individual player, using several types of clubs, has the ultimate objective of getting a ball into a hole in the fewest number of strokes possible. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed, standardised playing field or area; rather, the game is played on golf courses, each one of which has a unique design and consists of either 9 or 18 separate 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.