golf

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  1. noun A game played on a large outdoor course with a series of 9 or 18 holes spaced far apart, the object being to propel a small, hard ball with the use of various clubs into each hole with as few strokes as possible.
  2. intransitive verb To play this game.

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  • Or I could just let the cats write the blog while I use this time to do research .. or golf (which in my case would be mini-golf, at which I excel, if I may say so myself). —  FemaleScienceProfessor
  • Here's something you don't hear every day (see what I did there) -- golf, a true —  FanHouse
  • Alexis Thompson is 14, but her golf is all grown up.
  • Perhaps he misunderstood the question or even got it wrong, but the curious thing is that in the intervening years Choi has gone on to claim seven titles on the PGA Tour and yet to outsiders he still seems to be the second biggest story in Korean golf, behind the success story that is their ladies golf.
  • Deep divisions within Asian golf, coupled with the global economic crisis, have left the sport struggling after years of unprecedented growth. —  Zee News : India National
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  1. Middle English.

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  1. Dial.goff, Scots also gouff; prob. from Dutch kolf = Middle Low German kolve = Old High German cholbo, cholpo, a club, Middle High German kolbe G. kolbe, kolben, a club, knob, butt-end of a gun, a retort, = Icelandic kōlfr, the clapper of a bell, a bulb, a bolt, kylfa, a club, = Swedish kolf, a butt-end, bolt, retort, = Dan, kolv, a bolt, shaft, arrow (kolbe, the butt-end of a weapon, from G.). There may be a remote connection with club and clump, q. v.
  2. from golf, n.
 

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