Definition of a Golf Club. A golf club is an organization of at least ten individual members that operates under bylaws with committees (including a Handicap Committee) to supervise golf activities, provide peer review, and maintain the integrity of the USGA Handicap System (see Compliance Checklist, Section 8-2m; Decision 2/7).
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Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. golf. n. A game played on a large outdoor course with a series of 9 or 18 holes spaced far apart, the object being to propel a small, hard ball with the use of various clubs into each hole with as few strokes as possible. v. golfed, golf·ing, golfs. v.intr. To play this game: She golfed every day on her vacation.
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Ball in Play. A ball is in play as soon as the player has made a stroke on the teeing ground. It remains in play until it is holed, except when it is lost, out of bounds or lifted, or another ball has been substituted, whether or not the substitution is permitted; a ball so substituted becomes the ball in play.
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a. a game played on a large open course, the object of which is to hit a ball using clubs, with as few strokes as possible, into each of usually 18 holes. b. (as modifier): a golf bag.
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A ball is in a lateral water hazard when it lies in or any part of it touches the lateral water hazard. Stakes used to define the margin of or identify a lateral water hazard are obstructions. Note 1: That part of a water hazard to be played as a lateral water hazard must be distinctively marked.
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A minority of people hold the view that golf is a purely Scottish term, derived from Scots words 'golf', 'golfand' and 'golfing', which mean 'to strike' as in 'to cuff' or 'to drive forward with violence'. It did not become a verb until much later.
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Golf - Meaning of Word Golf. A common misconception is that the word GOLF is an acronym for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. This is definitely not true. It is now accepted that the 'golf' is derived from an old word meaning 'club'. The first documented mention of the word 'golf' is in Edinburgh on 6th March 1457, when King James II banned 'ye golf', in an attempt to encourage archery practice, which was being neglected.
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When out of bounds is defined by reference to stakes or a fence or as being beyond stakes or a fence, the out of bounds line is determined by the nearest inside points at ground level of the stakes or fence posts (excluding angled supports).
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1. a game in which clubs are used to hit a small ball into a series of holes, usu. 9 or 18, situated over a course, the object being to get the ball into each hole in as few strokes as possible. v.i. 2. to play golf.
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Exception in match play: Ball in play includes a ball played by the player from outside the teeing ground when starting play of a hole if the opponent does not require the stroke to be cancelled in accordance with Rule 11-4a.
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GOLF is defined as an acronym for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. Golf is an acronym for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.