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golf

[golf, gawlf, gof] / gɒlf, gɔlf, gɒf /
NOUN
match play
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Before The Open, Scheffler doubled down on previous comments he had made about there being "more to life than playing golf".

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

It’s next to the waterpark, mini golf course and go-kart track.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

A division spokesperson confirmed an act of vandalism occurred on the golf course, but declined to share further details because of the open investigation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

To that point, he’d only made smaller contributions, primarily to the club hockey and golf teams.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Chumley Prep is the school over in the part of town where there’s a country club with a golf course and where all the homes look like palaces surrounded by gigantic oak trees.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

He now has a weekly lunch with single and retired male neighbors, golfs, and has taken up pickleball.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 25, 2026

“It’s still hard, but that’s natural because a lot of players like golfing on the weekend,” said Jongseo Joseph Lee, president of the SoCal Dream Golf Club, who golfs twice a month on city courses.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2025

He golfs, attends a men’s prayer group, plays the bagpipes, marches in parades and enjoys the company of his seven grandchildren, all boys.

From New York Times Feb. 26, 2023

Perdue often golfs with Trump and speaks with him frequently by phone.

From Reuters Jan. 5, 2021

With a ten-mile spin she stretches her limbs, She golfs, she punts, she rows, she swims— She plays, she sings, she dances, too, From ten or eleven til all is blue!

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

The two men regularly golfed together, and the senator, who was always a fixture on cable news television, ardently defended the president and his policies.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

That’s why, when Freeman golfed Skenes’ down-and-away splitter to center field last month, he started to feel hopeful.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2025

For years after the campaign, the two men golfed together, and as vice president Mr. Biden had Mr. Burris and his granddaughter into the White House.

From New York Times May 2, 2024

But his 0-1 curveball was golfed over the right-field fence.

From Seattle Times Mar. 6, 2024

With many there he had danced and golfed and bridged a hundred times.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie

Scheffler's surprising soliloquy about the importance of chasing golfing greatness caused a stir at Portrush last year and the four-time major winner flirted with similar territory at Birkdale.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

The two men were never best friends or golfing buddies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

“It’s a lot less pretentious — more diverse, more access for all different types of people,” says Ingram, who noticed a shift in golfing culture in recent years.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

Long-time friends Rob Davis, 67, and David Lewis, 64, golfing partners of more than 30 years, both made a hole-in-one, on the same hole and in the same round.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2026

He was dressed in golfing clothes and looked slightly ill at ease.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French



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