golf

[Golf]

A game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes

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A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.

Noun
a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes

Verb
play golf


n.
A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.


Golf

Golf , n. [D. kolf club or bat, also a Dutch game played in an inclosed area with clubs and balls; akin to G. kolben club, but end, Icel. klfr tongue of a bell. bolt, Sw. kolf bolt, dart, but end, Dan. kolv bolt, arrow. Cf. Club, Globe.] A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner. [Scot.] Strutt.

A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.

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Usage Examples

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

A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

Golf course design is exciting.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.

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Other Usage Examples

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.

Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

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