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Variant of golf

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

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golfer quotes

I'm not an athlete, more a gymnast and golfer, soldered together.

-Bryant, David

Give me a manwith big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

-Hagen,Walter

Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor; ask anybody, particularly the critics.

-Mature,Victor

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