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Definition: Golf |
GolfNoun1. 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. Verb1. Play golf. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "golf" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1893. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | An excuse for carrying unconcealed weapons and a Scotch breath. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To be playing golf or watching the game, denotes that pleasant and successive wishing will be indulged in by you. To see any unpleasantness connected with golf, you will be humiliated by some thoughtless person. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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This article is about the game of golf.
Golf is a game believed to have been first played in Scotland, where each player has to hit his own small ball into a hole using various types of clubs. The club is swung at the motionless ball on the ground from a side-stance. Score is kept (a count of the number of strokes required) with the smallest score being the best.
- For the model of automobile, see the Volkswagen Golf
- For the letter "G" in radio speak, see NATO phonetic alphabet
A round of golf typically consists of 18 holes. Par is the number of strokes that an expert golfer needs to put the ball in any given hole, and is usually around 72 for the 18 holes. A hole has a teeing area, a fairway with a rough sideways and a green (a closely mown area around the hole). There are hazards to play over or around (sand traps called bunkers, water, etc.) Distances from the teeing ground to the hole vary, but typical values for a par three range from 130 to 230 yards (120-210 m), a par four from 300 to 475 yards (275-435 m), and a par five from 450 to 600 yards (410-550 m). The expert golfer will reach the green in two strokes under par and then use those two strokes on the green to get the ball into the hole.
; Hole In One : The first stroke sends a ball into the hole. ; Double Eagle (a/k/a Albatross) : Three stokes under par. ; Eagle : Two strokes under par. ; Birdie : One stroke under par. ; Bogey : One stroke over par. ; Double Bogey : Two strokes over par.
Equipment
There are three major types of clubs, known as woods, irons, and putters. A golfer usually carries a couple of woods, perhaps 10 irons, and a putter. The rules forbid the golfer to carry more than 14 clubs during the game. The parts of a club are the shaft and the head. The shaft is a tapered tube made of metal or fiberglass or graphite. The shaft is roughly 1/2 inch in diameter (12 mm) and they range from about 35 to 45 inches (89-115 cm) in length depending on the club. The head is the part that hits the ball. Each head has a face which contacts the ball during the stroke. Various clubs are designed with the face having differing "loft", the angle the face makes with the ground when the club is at rest. Typically, the greater the loft, the higher and shorter the resulting shot. The end of the shaft opposite the head is covered with a rubber or leather grip for the player to hold. A complete club weighs about 14 ounces. The clubs are numbered for identification with the smallest numbered clubs used to hit the ball the longest distances.
Woods are long clubs (about 40-45 inches or 100-115 cm) with large heads that are somewhat spherical in shape with a flattened face that contacts the ball and a flattened bottom that slides over the ground without digging in during the stroke. Originally the "wood" heads were made of wood but modern club heads are made of hollow metal, sometimes filled with foam. The shaft enters the wood off-center, in such a way that the face of the wood is roughly at a right angle to one side of the shaft. Woods are used for the longest shots, ranging from 200 to 300 yards (180-275 m). The typical loft for wood faces ranges from 6 to 26 degrees.
Irons are used for shorter shots than woods, especially including shots approaching the greens. Irons typically range from 36 to 40 inches (90-100 cm) in length. The iron heads are shaped like the face of a wood but without the rounded backs. They look more like a flat piece of metal sticking out sideways from the shaft. The typical lofts for irons range from 16 to 60 degrees.
Traditionally, most metal golf club heads were made by forging, which involves the carefull shaping of the club head through hammering and pressing of heated steel. Today, most modern golf club heads are cast, that is, molten metal is poured into inticate molds and allowed to cool. Forged clubs are still prized for feel while cast clubs often have modern game improvement characterists.
Putters resemble irons except that they are even shorter and have very low loft. They are used to roll the ball on the green when attempting to get the ball into the hole.
Sometimes transportation is by special golf carts.
History
Golf is usually regarded to be a Scottish invention, as the game was mentioned in two 15th century laws prohibiting the playing of the game of "golf". Some scholars however suggest that this refers to another game which is actually much akin to the modern field hockey. The same scholars also point out that a game of putting a small ball in a hole in the ground played with "golf clubs" was played in the 17th century Netherlands.
What we think of as the modern game really came into being in the second half of the 19th century in Scotland. The basic rules of the game and the design of equipment and courses strongly resemble those of today. The major changes in equipment since then were better mowers, especially for the greens, better golf ball designs using rubber and man-made materials beginning around 1900 and the introduction of the metal shaft beginning in the 1930s. In the 1970s the use of metal to replace wood heads began, and shafts made of graphite composite materials were introduced in the 1980s.
Environmental impact
The major results of the equipment changes is that today's players can hit the ball much further and more accurately. One consequence of the availability of more high-tech equipment to drive balls further, is that golf courses have tended to become larger. Also, many pesticides and lawn grooming aids, foreign grasses, and even in some cases genetically modified grasses, are used on golf courses. Golf courses have tended to become more controlled and their terrain more specifically changed and designed for the game - accordingly, they tend to have a quite high environmental impact although some designers have sought in recent years to minimize this.
The popularity and status appeal of golf in such crowded countries as Japan and Korea has led in some cases to eviction or murder of farmers (e.g. in the Philippines) to gain access to lands they didn't wish to sell, and damage to the local agricultural economy due to pesticides, which are poorly regulated in developing nations. Even in developed nations, golf runoff is sometimes identified as a factor in cancer and other environmental health hazards.
Finally, most golf courses are on land that used to be forests, as opposed to the moors of Scotland or grassy hills of Ireland. This leads to charges that golf courses contribute to deforestation. Similar charges have been laid against luge runs. Golf was removed from the Olympic Games in 1908 in part because of these issues, whereas luge was cut back also in recent years.
Although golf is a relatively minor issue compared to other land ethics questions, it has symbolic importance as it is a game normally associated with the wealthier Westernized population, and the culture of colonization and globalization of non-native land ethics. Resisting golf tourism and golf's expansion has become an objective of some land reform movements, especially in the Philippines and Indonesia.
See also
- golfers
- disc golf
- Ryder Cup
- Solheim Cup
- Golf Instruction
- History of golf instruction
- Timeline of Golf History 1353-1850
- Timeline of Golf History 1851-1993
Professional Golf
Golf, like other sports, is played professionally in many different countries. Organizations usually called "tours" form tournaments, find sponsors, select participants, and set rules and standards. There are many different tours around the world, including the European Tour and the Canadian Tour, as well as the Champions Tour for pro golfers over 50 years old, and the LPGA tour for women golfers. The most widely known is the PGA TOUR (correctly rendered in all caps), which attracts the best golfers from all the other tours. This is due mostly to the fact that prizes for PGA TOUR events reach into the high six figures, and PGA TOUR wins can mean endorsement deals, exemptions to play in other tournaments, as well as the prestige earned by beating the best of the best.
The Majors
The four biggest tournaments in professional golf are called "majors" and they are played at roughly the same time every year. The four majors are:
The Masters has been played at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, GA since its inception in 1934. The U.S. Open and PGA Championship are played at various courses around the United States, while the British Open is played in the U.K.
- The Masters
- The U.S. Open
- The British Open
- The PGA Championship
Winning a major is the crowning career achievement for many professional golfers. Most will never accomplish this very difficult feat. Jack Nicklaus, who is widely regarded as the best golfer of all time, has won 18 majors. Tiger Woods, who is possibly the only contender to Nicklaus' record has won 8 majors, all before the age of 27. Tiger has also come the closest to winning all four majors in one year (known as a "grand slam") when he won the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship in 2000, and then the Masters in 2001
The LPGA's list of majors has changed several times over the years, with the last change in 2001. Like the PGA TOUR, the LPGA currently has four majors:
- Kraft Nabisco Championship
- U.S. Women's Open
- LPGA Championship
- Women's British Open
External links
- Rules of Golf
- Golf Equipment Reviews
- miscellaneous golf associations:
- Golf ball aerodynamics
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Golf."
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At the 1900 Summer Olympics, two golf events were contested.
Pos Athlete 1 Charles Sands (USA) 2 Walter Rutherford (GBR) 3 David D. Robertson (GBR)
Pos Athlete 1 Margaret Abbott (USA) 2 Pauline Whittier (USA) 3 Daria Pratt (USA) Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Golf at the 1900 Summer Olympics."
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At the 1904 Summer Olympics, two golf events were contested (men's individual and team tournaments).
Pos Athlete 1 George Lyon (CAN) 2 Henry Chandler Egan (USA) 3 Francis Newton (USA)
Pos Athlete 1 Western Golf Association (USA) Henry Chandler Egan, Daniel Sawyer, Robert Hunter, Kenneth Edwards, Clement Smoot, Warren Wood, Mason Phelps, Walter Egan, Edward Cummins, Nathaniel Moore 2 Trans-Mississippi Golf Association (USA) Francis Newton, Henry Potter, Ralph McKittrick, Albert Lambert, Frederick Semple, Stuart Stickney, William Stickney, Burt McKinnie, John Maxwell, John Cady 3 United States Golf Association (USA) Douglas Cadwalader, Allen Lard, Jesse Carleton, Simeon Price, Harold Weber, John Rahm, Arthur Hussey, Orus Jones, Harold Fraser, George Oliver Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Golf at the 1904 Summer Olympics."
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Golf is a village located in Palm Beach County, Florida. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 230.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.2 km² (0.8 mi²). 2.1 km² (0.8 mi²) of it is land and 1.19% is water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 230 people, 119 households, and 84 families residing in the village. The population density is 107.0/km² (277.2/mi²). There are 146 housing units at an average density of 67.9/km² (176.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 97.39% White, 0.87% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 1.74% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 2.17% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 119 households out of which 9.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 68.1% are married couples living together, 1.7% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.4% are non-families. 28.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 26.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 1.93 and the average family size is 2.31. In the village the population is spread out with 9.1% under the age of 18, 2.6% from 18 to 24, 6.1% from 25 to 44, 27.0% from 45 to 64, and 55.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 67 years. For every 100 females there are 91.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 88.3 males. The median income for a household in the village is $0, and the median income for a family is $0. Males have a median income of $0 versus $50,833 for females. The per capita income for the village is $144,956. 1.7% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 3.4% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Golf, Florida."
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Golf is a village located in Cook County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 451.Geography
Golf is located at 42°3'27" North, 87°47'31" West (42.057562, -87.791995)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.1 km² (0.4 mi²). 1.1 km² (0.4 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 451 people, 156 households, and 133 families residing in the village. The population density is 395.8/km² (1,014.5/mi²). There are 158 housing units at an average density of 138.6/km² (355.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 98.89% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.89% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.22% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.67% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 156 households out of which 41.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 76.3% are married couples living together, 5.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 14.7% are non-families. 12.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 5.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.89 and the average family size is 3.17. In the village the population is spread out with 31.5% under the age of 18, 2.4% from 18 to 24, 24.2% from 25 to 44, 24.4% from 45 to 64, and 17.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 95.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 100.6 males. The median income for a household in the village is $131,742, and the median income for a family is $138,560. Males have a median income of $82,960 versus $76,160 for females. The per capita income for the village is $69,164. 0.9% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Golf, Illinois."
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The Grand Slam of golf consists of four major golfing events held each year as part of the PGA TOUR. In order of their playing date, the four events that make up golf's Grand Slam are:In December of each year since 1979, following these four major tournaments, the PGA holds a special two-day, 36-hole stroke-play competition exclusively for those players who have won one of the four major championships. This PGA Grand Slam of Golf tournament provides a prize of $1 million and initially was played at a different golf course each year. Since 1994, the Poipu Bay Golf Course on the Hawaiian island of Kauai has been the tournament's permanent home.
- May - The Masters
- June - US Open
- July - British Open
- August - PGA Championship
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Grand Slam of golf."
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The Volkswagen Golf is an historically-important model of automobile that began production in 1974. Marketed in the United States from 1975-1984 as the Volkswagen Rabbit, it featured the water-cooled, front transverse-engine, front-wheel-drive design pioneered by the Mini with the addition of a hatchback, revolutionizing small car design and manufacture.While the Golf was not the first design with this layout (that honour going to the Fiat 128 3P of the early 1970s), it was the first to be truly successful in the mass market, and it was this, rather than the Fiat, that was widely copied by others.
The Golf was designed by Italian automobile architect Giorgetto Giugiaro, of the Ital design studio. A version of this original Golf model is still produced in South Africa as an entry level car.
The GTi version, launched in Europe 1977 and the US in 1983, created a whole new genre and market of car - the hot hatchback, and was widely copied by all other manufacturers since.
Four generations of the original Golf model have been built so far. The 5th generation started to sell in November 2003. For the presentation of the new Golf Wolfsburg was renamed to Golfsburg for a week.
The sedan version of the Golf was the Jetta, subsequently known as the Vento (from 1992) and later as the Bora from 1998, although the Jetta name is stil used in North America and South Africa.
External links
- http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Autos/Makes_and_Models/Volkswagen/Golf/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "VW Golf."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GOLF | English | Global Oscillation at Low Frequencies | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: GolfSynonym: golf game (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament, pugilism; (contention); sports; horse racing, the turf; aquatics; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat, croquet, golf, curling, pallone, polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell. |
Vehicle | Motor car, automobile, limousine, car, auto, jalopy, clunker, lemon, flivver, coupe, sedan, two-door sedan, four-door sedan, luxury sedan; wheels, sports car, roadster, gran turismo, jeep, four-wheel drive vehicle, electric car, steamer; golf cart, electric wagon; taxicab, cab, taxicoach, checker cab, yellow cab; station wagon, family car; motorcycle, motor bike, side car; van, minivan, bus, minibus, microbus; truck, wagon, pick-up wagon, pick-up, tractor-trailer, road train, articulated vehicle; racing car, racer, hot rod, stock car, souped-up car. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | have videotapes of you playing golf with Satan (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) She can suck a golf ball through twenty feet of garden hose (Beverly Hills Cop II; writing credit: Eddie Murphy; Robert D. Wachs) If you refuse to grow up and scam your insurance company, you'll have to work this out with maroon Golf. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis) Boys, the next time you drive a golf cart over a catered lunch and into a swimming pool there will be consequences (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) | |
Clever | Golf is a good walk spoiled. (references; author: Mark Twain) If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. (references; author: Bob Hope) There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Golf Etiquette (1973) España campo de golf (1972) Golf for Swingers (1972) Charlie's Golf Classic (1970) Giocando a golf una mattina (1969) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rabbit on golf practice green, The Boulders, Carefree, Arizona. Credit: CDC. |  | Golf at the "Zambo" Country Club L to R - caddy, George L. Anderson, caddy, H. C. Warwick Off the MARINDUQUE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Golf course on the Kona coast. Palm trees moulded by direction of prevailing trade winds. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Golf courses are common along the South Carolina coast. This golf course at the edge of the Waccamaw River was part of a study conducted by the North Inlet - Winyah Bay NERR designed to determine the effects of golf course best management practices on water quality. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Golf ball sized hail. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |  | White tailed deer on golf course in West Virginia. Credit: USDA. |
 | U.S. Army. Hospital, Fort Benning, Ga. : Nurses playing golf. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | U. S. Army Hospital Number 99, Hyeres, France. : Baking pies for patients at le Golf Hotel. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Man swinging golf club. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Man about to drive a golf ball. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Golf cart" by Randy Rowe Commentary: "Golf cart on a bridge." | "Golf klubbs" by Pontus Madsen Commentary: "My ultracool golfbag." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
John H. Moore | The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after we are in. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The cysts may become quite big, occasionally over 50 cc in volume (about the size of a golf ball). (references) | |
Gallstones can be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball. The gallbladder can develop just one large stone, hundreds of tiny stones, or almost any combination. (references) | ||
Recognizes the need to balance the use of labor-saving devices (e.g., power lawnmowers, golf carts, automobiles) and sedentary activities (e.g., watching television, use of computers) with activities that involve a higher level of physical exertion. (references) | ||
Business | Clover Golf Bags is the Argentine golf bag manufacturer. (references) | |
Precept, Titleist and Top Flite are top sellers of golf balls. (references) | ||
Golf is closely tied to high technology in product development. (references) | ||
Economic History | Malaysia | Golf and tennis clubs are very popular in Malaysia. (references) |
Switzerland | Another very promising area for the summer sporting goods industry is golf. (references) | |
Uae | Its principal use is in municipal decorative and ornamental agriculture and golf courses. (references) | |
Minorities | Japan | In June the Tokyo District Court rejected a suit filed by a Korean resident seeking compensation from a Chiba golf club operator for denying him membership because he is a foreigner. (references) |
Trade | Vietnam | Special consumption taxes also apply for services such as dancing, massage, karaoke, casino, jackpot machine games, certain betting activities and golf. (references) |
Thailand | In addition to import duties handled by the Customs Department, certain import items are also subject to excise tax . These include gasoline and products thereof, automobiles (less than 10 seats), electrical appliances, beverages, perfume, yachts and vessels for entertainment, lead crystal and other crystals, carpets and woven fur items, motorcycles, batteries, marble and granite, liquor, tobacco, and playing cards . It is worth mentioning that an excise tax is also imposed on local products in the same categories as well as on certain entertainment service providers such as horse racing grounds/clubs and golf clubs. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | There is a 9-hole golf course with sand fairways and greens. (references) |
Trinidad | Recreational opportunities on week ends include beaches, boating, golf and other sports. (references) | |
Philippines | Similarly, sporting facilities such as golf courses and scuba diving sites are abundant. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Hathaway kept everything close to the vest because if she let it all go she'd be trying to talk Miss Ellie into sharing a hotel room in Palm Springs for the Dinah Shore Golf Classic and they'd have to cancel the show. |
Linda Thompson | Well, interestingly enough, I disappeared for two weeks. I went on vacation with my aunt and uncle to Golf Shores, Alabama. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Golf" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.56% of the time. "Golf" is used about 3,426 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.56% | 3,411 | 2,830 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.44% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,426 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Honma Golf Co., Ltd. | USA | Adams Golf, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Golf, FL (village, FIPS 26550) 2. Golf, IL (village, FIPS 30328) |
Expressions using "golf": clock golf ♦ golf arm ♦ golf bag ♦ golf ball ♦ golf ball printer ♦ golf caddie ♦ golf cap ♦ golf cart ♦ golf club ♦ golf course ♦ golf elbow ♦ golf equipment ♦ golf game ♦ golf glove ♦ golf hole ♦ golf hose ♦ golf lesson ♦ golf links ♦ Golf Manor ♦ golf player ♦ golf pro ♦ golf range ♦ golf shot ♦ golf socks ♦ golf stroke ♦ golf tee ♦ golf togs ♦ golf widow ♦ miniature golf ♦ play golf ♦ professional golf ♦ round of golf ♦ Village Of Golf. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "golf": golf-bag, golf-bags, golf-ball, golf-ball printer, golf-balls, golf-based, golf-club, golf-clubbing, golf-clubs, golf-course, golf-courses, golf-crazy, golf-cricketer, golf-driving, golf-equipment, Golf-house, golf-links, golf-mad, golf-only, golf-playing, golf-writers. | |
Ending with "golf": mini-golf. | |
Containing "golf": super-golf-course. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
golf club | 40,617 | golf game | 2,089 |
golf | 27,809 | golf shirt | 1,917 |
golf course | 21,987 | arizona golf | 1,916 |
golf driver | 17,753 | discount golf | 1,738 |
golf ball | 9,642 | titleist golf | 1,676 |
golf shoes | 7,938 | golf handicap | 1,625 |
golf club review | 7,516 | nike golf | 1,575 |
equipment used for golf | 5,309 | pga golf | 1,404 |
golf cart | 4,608 | golf swing | 1,382 |
golf bag | 4,293 | discount golf club | 1,274 |
us open golf | 3,823 | golf digest | 1,236 |
callaway golf | 3,411 | book talking about golf | 1,210 |
golf accessory | 3,253 | golf ireland | 1,205 |
golf channel | 3,183 | disc golf | 1,183 |
golf lesson | 2,817 | golf club component | 1,164 |
golf club used | 2,780 | golf store | 1,130 |
golf tip | 2,436 | golf open u.s | 1,119 |
taylor made golf | 2,395 | golf gift | 1,108 |
mini golf | 2,239 | golf vacation | 1,080 |
golf magazine | 2,114 | miniature golf | 1,047 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "golf"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | golf (gulf), gholf (gulf). (various references) | |
Albanian | golf, luaj golf. (various references) | |
Arabic | لعبة الجولف, لعب الجولف, لاعب الجولف. (various references) | |
Asturian | golf. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | голф (plus fours), играя голф. (various references) | |
Chinese | 高爾夫球 , 高尔夫球. (various references) | |
Czech | golf. (various references) | |
Danish | bugt (bay, gulf). (various references) | |
Dutch | golfspel (gulf), golf (gulf, wave). (various references) | |
Esperanto | golfo (gulf), golfludo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | golfspæl, vík (gulf). (various references) | |
Farsi | بازی چوگان یاگلف . (various references) | |
Finnish | golf, lahti (bay, cove, gulf). (various references) | |
French | golfe, Golf. (various references) | |
German | golf (gulf). (various references) | |
Greek | γκολφ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | גולף. (various references) | |
Hungarian | golf. (various references) | |
Indonesian | golf. (various references) | |
Italian | golfo (gulf), golf (Jersey). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ゴラン高原 (Golan Heights, golf bag, golf club, golf links, golf swing, golf wear, golf window, golfer, gorge, gorilla). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゴルフ . (various references) | |
Korean | 골프. (various references) | |
Manx | cloie golf (golfing). (various references) | |
Norwegian | golf. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olfgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | golfo (gulf), golfe, jogar golfe. (various references) | |
Provencal | gòlf. (various references) | |
Romanian | golf (bay, gulf). (various references) | |
Russian | гольф. (various references) | |
Samoan | taaloga ta polo. (various references) | |
Scottish | caman (a shinty, club for shinty or golf). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | golf, igrati golf. (various references) | |
Spanish | golf. (various references) | |
Swedish | golf (gulf), spela golf. (various references) | |
Thai | กีฬากอล์ฟ. (various references) | |
Turkish | golf oynamak, golf. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | грати в гольф, гольф. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | gậy đánh gôn câu lạc bộ của những người chơi gôn (golf-club). (various references) | |
Welsh | golff. (various references) | |
Zulu | iligalofu (gulf), igalofu (gulf). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "golf": golfed, golfer, golfers, golfing, golfings, golfs. (additional references) | |
Words containing "golf": nongolfer, nongolfers. (additional references) | |
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"Golf" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gcol, gelf, Gilf, glf, glo, gloc, glofe, glok, glox, gnof, Gnoli, goef, goeff, gof, gofa, gofl, gol, gola, golb, Gole, Golfe, golfs, goli, golla, gols, golt, goly, Golz, Gool, goole, gorf, gouf, guelf, guif, gulfo, Gulg, gullf, kolf, Ngolo, Tolfa, volf. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: flog. | |
| Words within the letters "f-g-l-o" | |
-1 letter: fog, log. | |
-2 letters: go, lo, of. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-g-l-o" | |
+1 letter: flogs, flong, golfs. | |
+2 letters: flagon, flongs, fodgel, golfed, golfer. | |
+3 letters: flagons, flogged, flogger, flotage, flowage, flowing, foaling, foggily, fogless, foiling, folding, foliage, fooling, foreleg, fouling, fowling, furlong, glorify, glowfly, golfers, golfing, goofily, loafing, lofting, rolfing, solfege, songful, ufology, wolfing. | |
+4 letters: bullfrog, coffling, fetology, filmgoer, flagpole, flamingo, flatlong, flexagon, floatage, floating, floccing, flocking, floggers, flogging, flooding, floorage, flooring, flopping, florigen, flossing, flotages, flouring, flouting, flowages, foliaged, foliages, folioing, folksong, fondling, footling, footslog, foozling, forelegs, foulings, fowlings, foxglove, froglike, furlongs, furlough, gatefold, gigaflop, gloomful, goldfish, golfings, gonfalon, goofball, leapfrog, lifelong, longleaf, solfeges, solfeggi, wrongful. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Company Usage 14. Cities 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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