golf
IPA: gˈɑɫf
noun
- (sports) A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Golf from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
verb
- (intransitive) To play the game of golf.
- (computing) To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)
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Examples of "golf" in Sentences
- The Golf Club includes the Desert Course.
- The golf ball on the mast was the giveaway.
- Is this the first golf tournament of the season
- The term par score originated in the game of golf.
- A stymie refers to an archaic rule in the game of golf.
- The rules of golf require the golf player to hit the ball.
- I agree seeing someone other than Caucasian in golf is a good thing.
- In the annals of golf, he is considered one of the greats of the game.
- The word golf derives from the Dutch word kolf or kolve, meaning club.
- The method also contemplates the use of golf clubs with oversize heads.
- I play golf, so in addition to all of that, I'm also a glutton for punishment.
- Jonathan Weisman looks at what we can expect from what some are calling a "golf summit".
- A possibly ideal inroad for the Palm Springs area is golf, a game with a growing popularity in China.
- He drives what he calls a golf-cart car, a Prius, and he made The 11th Hour, a detailed documentary about our planet in crisis.
- And a big congratulations also to Argentina's Angel Cabrera who last night clinched The Masters title in golf after a tense play-off in Augusta, Georgia.
- '' I think he's a better player than I was, '' Nicklaus conceded after two days of playing with the man whose sole purpose in golf is to break his record of
- NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is selling its 44.7% stake in Japanese golf-course operator Accordia Golf Co., in which the U.S. firm invested nearly a decade ago.
- Another reason history flourishes in golf is that the major championships return to familiar venues, reviving golden memories of momentous victories and, yes, unforgettable blunders.
- Elite Peking University set off a debate over whether golf is appropriate for China, where most people still live in poverty, when it announced in August that it was building a practice green.
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