golfing
golf
verb[ I ]
uk /ɡɒlf/ us /ɡɑːlf/
to play golf:
He golfs and runs and works out at the gym.
I learned to golf in Hilton Head.
Roberts says he rarely golfs during working hours.
With a son who also golfs, vacations can get quite expensive.
For a week Betty lay in the sun and wrote letters while Bill and Hal golfed.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Golf
approach shot
best ball
better ball
bogey
bogie
caddy
chip
dogleg
greenside
hazard
hole
hole out
lay
lay someone up
long game
rough
tap
waggle
wedge
yip

golf | American Dictionary

golf
noun[ U ]
us/ɡɑlf, ɡɔlf/
a game in which players use a set of sticks to hit small, round, hard balls into a series of nine or 18 small holes on an area of grassy land using as few hits as possible:
Do you play golf?

golfer

noun[ C ]us/ˈɡɑl·fər, ˈɡɔl-/
a professional golfer

Examples of golf

golf
Motoring and car maintenance was another hobby enjoyed by twelve haemophiliacs and a few mentioned fishing, bowls and golf.
The approach is validated using a case study on the design of a wooden golf-club head.
Most of these suits were ruled in favor of the golf-course developers. 10.
Some may be domain-restricted and hence part of a specialist vocabulary (birdie in golf, reccy in military usage).
Most everyone, for instance, holds all three of these positions towards lowlevel visual perception, while nobody holds them regarding the ability to play miniature golf.
It is possible to get back to playing 18 holes of golf even after major surgery.
These behaviours model the actions of consumers in a water-sharing network such as farmers or golf courses along a shared river.
Our actual sampling technique was not much different from that used now; ten samples taken with a golf cup cutter were mixed together and subsampled.
Though she is not one to complain, she laments no longer being able to play golf or go for walks without oxygen.
The hotel grounds include a golf course, tennis courts, riding facilities, etc., and these are shown on the splendid ceramic map outside the hotel.
Some activities that have become much more popular, such as golf or watching television, were not included.
In addition, from his golf teacher he has learnt the necessity of embedding technique so that it becomes a natural habit.
Tennis and golf courts were being built everywhere along with convention halls.
These species are also a significant part of the multi-billion dollar sport and leisure industry through their use in playing surfaces such as golf courses.
On one occasion, the professor had spent hours trying to perfect a detail of his golf technique.
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Collocations withgolf

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celebrity golf
They raise this money not only by playing charity ice hockey games, but also by attending auctions or playing celebritygolf.
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