Definitions for golf

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Spelling: [golf, gawlf; British also gof]

IPA: /gɒlf, gɔlf; British also gɒf/

Golf is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in golf (fglo).

Definitions for golf

noun

1. a game in which clubs with wooden or metal heads are used to hit a small, white ball into a number of holes, usually 9 or 18, in succession, situated at various distances over a course having natural or artificial obstacles, the object being to get the ball into each hole in as few strokes as possible.
2. a word used in communications to represent the letter G.

verb (used without object)

1. to play golf.

Origin of golf

1425-75; late Middle English; of uncertain origin

Examples for golf

From the swing at golf to the manner of lighting a match in the wind, this truism applies.

Officers in khaki came and talked to them about golf and gymkhanas.

The Duke disappeared into a darkened side room, where he sat inches from a glowing television screen, gazing at golf.

I play tennis in summer—when there is anyone to play with me—and golf, after a fashion.

Your mother, your uncle, one of your friends on the golf links?'

So he turned around, and got in the back of the golf cart that was supposed to take him back to his car.

golf is a game, and Mr. Knowles doesn't look as if he played games.

No one is quoting Bible verses to explain why they play tennis or enjoy a good game of golf.

Maybe just nine holes of golf after an American ISIS hostage is beheaded.

She takes a golf club, the country club equivalent of a Louisville slugger, and attacks his car.