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golf Definition

golf (gôlf, gälf)

noun

an outdoor game played on a large course with a small, hard ball and a set of clubs, the object being to hit the ball into each of a series of nine or eighteen holes in turn, using the fewest possible strokes

Etymology: LME (Scot) golf, gouff, usually deriv. < Du kolf, a club, but all early forms have g-, and the -l- may be unhistoric, hence < ? Scot gowf, to strike < gowf, a blow (with the open hand)

intransitive verb

to play golf

golf Related Forms
golf′er noun
golf Synonyms

golf

n.

match play, medal play, nine holes, eighteen holes, game, pasture pool*, heather marbles*, divot digging*.

golf Usage Examples

Object

  • enthusiast: With it's Championship course and sea views, it's the ideal place for the golfing enthusiast.
  • holiday: April 2005 26/04/05 New telephone hotline launched A new one-stop service to make booking a golfing holiday in St Andrews easier was launched today.

Converse of object

  • play: Kieran who has been playing golf for three years said: " I play at New Brighton.
  • trek: The area has every kind of outdoor pursuit from fell walking, Pony trekking, golf and fishing.

Adjective modifier

  • crazy: Boat hire, wind surfing, lessons, crazy golf available at a cost.
  • mini: Another option is to play a round of mini golf at the Cannon Bar.
  • miniature: Sport and Word Hook the biggest fish, jump the highest ski jump, or get your best score in miniature golf.
  • unlimited: An annual season ticket allows you free and unlimited golf all year round.

Modifies a noun

  • course: Further south, the golf courses are swept by the Atlantic breezes.
  • club: Utility room for golf clubs, bikes etc 12.
  • ball: Stray golf balls being hit into gardens from Dawlish Approach Golf.
  • swing: Whatever the reason, creating a great golf swing takes some time.
  • tournament: Over 90 % of professional golf tournaments involve Sunday play.
  • cart: Sorry, there are no rental cars in San Pedro - only rental golf carts which are ideal on the sandy streets.

Noun used with modifier

  • 9-hole: We have entertainment on Wed / Thurs / Sat nights and are situated next to playing fields and a 9-hole golf course.
  • nine-hole: This par 3 nine-hole golf course is excellent for the keen beginner or fot those who wish to practice on a short course.
  • championship: Limerick County Golf Course 18 hole championship quality golf course 5 miles south of the historical city of Limerick in Ireland.
  • hole: Golf The world class 18 hole golf courses in Méribel, just 5 minutes drive from the chalet.
  • parkland: This is a good solid parkland golf course without too many of the frills.
  • putt: There is also an eighteen-hole pitch and putt golf course.
golf Quotes

The IncomeTax return has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.

—Rogers,Will

Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?

—Silvers, Phil originally Philip Silver

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

—Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)

It is statute and ordained that in na place of the Realme there be used Fute-ball,Golfe, or uther sik unproffitable sportes.

—James IV

Exercise? I get it on the golf course.When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.

—Skelton, Red (Richard)

A golfcourse isthe epitome of all that ispurely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quicklyas possible.

—Giraudoux, (Hippolyte) Jean

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced.

—Trevino, Lee Buck

Golf is a game that is played on a five inch courseöthe distance between your ears.

—Jones, Bobby (RobertTyre)

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Golf is in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotesself-restraint and affordsa chanceto play the man and act the gentleman.

—Taft,William Howard

   Golf is like life in a lot of ways. The most important competition is the one against yourself.

—Clinton, Bill (William)

Golf is not and never has been a fair game.

—Nicklaus,JackWilliam knownas 'the GoldenBear'

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

—Milne, A(lan) A(lexander)

Golf is to Fiji what cricket is to America.

—Singh,Vijay

Golf always makes me so damned angry.

—GeorgeV

A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

—Leacock, Stephen Butler

   I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

—Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

That was a great game of golf.

—Crosby, Bing originally Harry Lillis Crosby

This isthe land God gave to Andy Stewartöwe have our inheritance. There shall be no ardour, there shall be indifference. There shall not be excellence, there shall be the average. We shall be the intrepid hunters of golf balls.

—A'Ghobhainn

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

—Rogers,Will

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

—Lemmon,Jack (John Uhler)

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

—Stallone, Sylvester

And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.'

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

All books are the Book of Job, high moral tests and tasks set in fairy tales, landmined and unforgiving as golf greens, as steeplechase and gameboard and obstacle course. 310

—Elkin, Stanley Lawrence

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf.

—Lynd, Robert

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

—Hope, Bob originally LeslieTownes Hope