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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

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

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

The 55,000-square-foot hall, lit by gaping skylights in its 75-foot-high ceilings, reopened last November as Ballers, a sports club that has three glass-and-mesh-enclosed padel courts, along with golf simulators and courts for squash and pickleball.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Two spools of thread, one white chess bishop, and six parts of a jigsaw puzzle...A teaspoon and a closed box of safety matches...A radish, two pennies, a nickel, and a golf ball.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater

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

Worse, he no longer golfs or snowmobiles —- including rides with his brother, friends and his 20-year-old son, Anthony.

From Seattle Times Mar. 5, 2024

Ms. Benefield was diagnosed with asbestosis and has been on supplemental oxygen full-time since 2015, though she still golfs and bowls, she says.

From New York Times Feb. 25, 2022

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 till all is blue!

From Songs of a Savoyard by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

In March of this year, Trump golfed with Finnish President Alexander Stubb in West Palm Beach, partnering in a club tournament Trump said the two men won.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2025

And with two outs, Jason Heyward golfed another long ball deep to right.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2024

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 Ryan McMahon golfed a cutter over the wall for a solo homer to make it 4-0.

From Seattle Times Mar. 1, 2024

Her husband was a meagre shrimp of a stockbroker under his wife’s control, who golfed on Sundays and played auction bridge at his club twice a week with cyclic regularity.

From The Moon Rock by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)

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

If not, no big deal; I now have another golfing buddy.

From MarketWatch May 29, 2026

Golfing with Eisman wasn’t like golfing with other Wall Street people.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis



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