She takes a golf club, the country club equivalent of a Louisville slugger, and attacks his car.
Maybe just nine holes of golf after an American ISIS hostage is beheaded.
So he turned around, and got in the back of the golf cart that was supposed to take him back to his car.
The Duke disappeared into a darkened side room, where he sat inches from a glowing television screen, gazing at golf.
No one is quoting Bible verses to explain why they play tennis or enjoy a good game of golf.
Officers in khaki came and talked to them about golf and gymkhanas.
Your mother, your uncle, one of your friends on the golf links?'
From the swing at golf to the manner of lighting a match in the wind, this truism applies.
I play tennis in summer—when there is anyone to play with me—and golf, after a fashion.
golf is a game, and Mr. Knowles doesn't look as if he played games.
mid-15c., Scottish gouf, usually taken as an alteration of Middle Dutch colf, colve "stick, club, bat," from Proto-Germanic *kulth- (cf. Old Norse kolfr "clapper of a bell," German Kolben "mace, club"). The game is from 14c., the word is first mentioned (along with fut-bol) in a 1457 Scottish statute on forbidden games. Golf ball attested from 1540s. Despite what you read in an e-mail, "golf" is not an acronym.
c.1800, golf (n.). Related: Golfed; golfing.
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