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Encyclopedia > Golf (disambiguation)
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Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

Sport

  • Golf, a sport in which individual players or teams of players strike a ball into a hole using several types of clubs
  • Miniature golf
  • Disc golf

This article is about the sport. ... Putt-Putt redirects here. ... A player putting at Cass Benton Disc Golf Course; Northville, Michigan. ...

Games

  • Golf (Atari 2600), a video game for the Atari 2600
  • Golf (video game), a video game for the NES by Nintendo.
  • Golf (card game), two different card games.
  • Perl, a programming language whose community developed a competitive pastime called "golf", which involves writing the smallest program to accomplish a task.
  • Golf (Game Boy), a video game for the Game Boy by Nintendo.
  • Word golf, a game to find the shortest sequence of words between two others changing one letter at a time.
  • Shot Online, a multiplayer online golf-playing game allowing character development and play against other users.

Golf is a 1978 video game for the Atari 2600. ... Golf is a game made for the NES. This was the first golfing game to feature Mario. ... Nes is: A municipality in the county of Akershus in Norway, see Nes, Akershus. ... Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo, or Big N ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. ... // Golf is not one, but two different card games where players try to earn the lowest number of points (as in golf, the sport) over the course of nine deals (or holes to further use golfing teminology). ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Perl Programming Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ... The Game Boy ) is a handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo[1], released in 1989 at US$109 ISBN 0-9643848-5-X. The Game Boy was the first successful handheld console, and was the predecessor of all other iterations of the Game Boy line. ... Word golf is a game in which one word is turned into another through a process of substituting single letters. ... Shot-Online is an online golf game. ...

Automobiles

The Volkswagen Golf (Mark 1 and Mark 5 badged as Volkswagen Rabbit in North America) is a compact car / small family car that Volkswagen manufactures. ... Volkswagen AG (ISIN: DE0007664005), or VW, is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany. ... VW Golf mk1 Peugeot 205 Mazda 323 VW Polo Renault 5 Ford Fiesta Opel Corsa Rover Metro Golf class is a type of car named after the VW Golf. ...

Acronyms

  • General Officer Logistic Forum - a meaning for the acronym ‘GOLF’
  • Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden - a meaning for the acronym ‘GOLF; an urban legend about origin of the name of the game of golf
  • Goal-Oriented Leadership Function - a meaning for the acronym ‘GOLF’
  • God Offers Love and Forgiveness – (sometimes God Offers Love Forgiveness); a meaning for the acronym ‘GOLF’
  • God Our Loving Father - a meaning for the acronym ‘GOLF’
  • Green Oxygen Light and Foot - a meaning for the acronym ‘GOLF’; Oxygen atoms emit green light at high collision energies. See aurora.
  • Ground Ordinance Launch Facility - a meaning for the acronym ‘GOLF’

The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, shines above Bear Lake Aurora Borealis as seen over Canada at 11,000m (36,000 feet) Red and green Aurora in Fairbanks,Alaska For other uses, see Aurora (disambiguation). ...

Places

Golf is a village located in Palm Beach County, Florida. ... Golf is a village located in Cook County, Illinois. ...

Other

  • golf is often confused with gulf.
  • G, the letter, in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
  • Golf Records
  • Golf class submarine, used by the Soviet Navy.
  • Geometrically Oriented Linear Force - Part of the book title The Golfing Machine: The Star System of G.O.L.F. (Geometrically Oriented Linear Force) by Homer Kelley that proposes using alignments, rather than positions, to build better golf swings.
  • Global Oscillations at Low Frequencies - Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) experiment instrument that measures velocity variations of the whole solar disk to explore the core of the sun.

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Golf (4451 words)
An appendix to the "Rules of Golf" defines that a golf ball must not weigh less than 45.93 grams, that its diameter must not be less than 42.67 millimetres, and that its shape may not differ significantly from a symmetric sphere.
Golf is usually regarded to be a Scottish invention, as the game was mentioned in two 15th century laws prohibiting the playing of the game of "golf".
Golf is not inherently an expensive activity; the cost of an average round of golf is $3636 [1] and the game is regularly enjoyed by over 26 million Americans.
Golf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5665 words)
A hole of golf consists of hitting a ball from a tee on the teeing ground (a marked area designated for the first shot of a hole), and continuing to strike the ball till it comes to rest in the cup.
Golf is not inherently an expensive activity; the cost of an average round of golf is USD $36 [4], and the game is regularly enjoyed by over 26 million Americans and many more world-wide.
Golf courses are built on many different types of land, including sandy areas along coasts, abandoned farms, strip mines and quarries, deserts and forests.
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