Golf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players (golfers), using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area. Instead, the game is played on golf "courses," each of which features a unique design, although courses typically consist of either nine or 18 holes. Golf is defined, in the rules of golf, as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules." Golf competition is generally played for the lowest number of strokes by an individual, known simply as stroke play, or the lowest score on the most individual holes during a complete round by an individual or team, known as match play.

Noun

golf m. (usually uncountable)

1. golf

• golfista

Quotes about Golf

• "Putts get real difficult the day they pass out the money." - Lee Trevino
• "Golf is a good walk spoiled." - Mark Twain
• "Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver. The sand wedge is far more effective." - Huxtable Pippey
• "The average golfer doesn't play golf. He attacks it." - Jack Burke
• "Golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture." - Winston Churchill
• "Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose." - Winston Churchill
• "One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball." - Don Carter
• "The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie." - George Deukmejian
• "You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen." - Lee Trevino
• "Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result." - Tommy Armour
• "The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course." - Billy Graham
• "GOLF: The art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications." - Rick Bayan, The Cynic's Dictionary
• "Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing." - Ben Hogan
• "The more I practice, the luckier I get" - Gary Player
• "You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work." - Lee Trevino
• "Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose." - Woodrow Wilson
• "I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you." - Seve Ballesteros
• "Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance." - Alistair Cooke
• "It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." - Hank Aaron
• "Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead." - Tommy Bolt
• "When it's breezy, hit it easy." - Davis Love, Jr.
• "They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that." - Gardner Dickinson
• "Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course." - Lee Trevino
• "If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf." - Bob Hope
• " Golf isn't about how good your best shot is, its about how bad your worst shot is. - Anonymous
• "If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron." - Lee Trevino