I am a student at the San Diego Golf Academy.  I want to be a golf course operator.  I’ve learned a lot here so far.  One of my first and best-learned lessons: wear sun screen, especially if you’re in a golf academy of the south.  I’m from Alaska, which can at times be quite sunny.  Even during the clearest summer days, however, the sun’s power is fairly limited.  Down here in California, it can really scorch you if you don’t take some precautions.  Watch the face (especially nose) and neck, but don’t forget the arms either.

Why is the sunlight more powerful down south?  You may have heard that the sun’s rays are more direct, but what exactly does that mean?  It has to do with the angle at which the rays strike the Earth.  The light rays are all approaching the Earth from the horizontal.  Since the Earth’s surface is curved, different places on it are at different angles relative to the horizontal rays of the sun.  Picture a two-by-two foot square of sunlight.  If it strikes ground that’s at an angle, it gets divided over a patch of ground that’s bigger than two-by-two feet, and so is weakened.

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