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golf

[golf, gawlf, gof] / gɒlf, gɔlf, gɒf /
NOUN
match play
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LIV's format has been based on boosting entertainment within golf, yet the Indianapolis event will no longer feature its weekend live music sets.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

I’m charmed by LeBron James’s nascent golf career: How someone at the top of one athletic profession has decided to start at the grim bottom of another.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

Niman said he and Schell also wanted to preserve the land from developers and “wealthy people from the Central Valley,” who were moving to the area to build second homes, golf courses and four-lane highways.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

Whaley, who attends Florida State University, came into the contest as a major underdog against Leng Jr, who is 23rd in the world amateur golf rankings, some 67 places higher than the 22-year-old from Doncaster.

From BBC Aug. 16, 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

Trump regularly golfs at his courses in Florida and Virginia on weekends.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 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

Today, active like her mom, Charlotte golfs and organizes walks at Mirabella.

From Seattle Times Oct. 19, 2023

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

From Reuters Jan. 5, 2021

Some parts, de wild golfs run 'roun' so thick a man hardly kin plough his fiel', 'thout carryin' six or eight shotguns on de plow.

From Lady Luck by Hugh Wiley

Former congressman Michael G. Oxley, who golfed with him a number of times, said Greenspan’s enthusiasm for the game was high but his skill level “sub-mediocre.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

During his time in the country, he golfed at President Donald Trump's Turnberry resort and also spent time in the Cotswolds in England, where he met foreign secretary, David Lammy.

From BBC Aug. 17, 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

To be sure, she had heard some one saying that he golfed extremely well; but as yet her social education was far too rudimentary to allow her mind to grasp all that that fact connoted.

From The Brentons by Wilson C. Dexter

Members pay for rewards—such as a deal on a new outfit for a golfing avatar, or a cowboy hat for PGATour—and in turn, the executives commit to paying for renewable energy.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

The two men were never best friends or golfing buddies.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

In addition to teaching and writing, he enjoyed golfing, horseback riding, fighting City Hall over an environmental issue, volunteering in soup kitchens and speaking to youth organizations, according to his bio.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2026

As cautious as I was, I eventually began to feel almost obligated to ask my golfing friend about his services simply because we had spent so much time together.

From MarketWatch May 27, 2026

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

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis



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