golf Definition

golf
noun

1. A game played on a golf course, the object being to hit a small ball into each of a series of nine or eighteen holes using a set of long-handled clubs, taking as few strokes as possible.
2. communications.
In the NATO alphabet: the word used to denote the letter ‘G'.
Form: Golf

verb

intr
golfed, golfing
1. To play this game.

Etymology: 15c Scots: perhaps from Dutch colf club.