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   golf

   /ɡɒlf/

   noun

   • 1. a game played on a large open-air course, in which a small hard ball is struck with a club into a series of small holes in the ground, the object being to use the fewest possible strokes to complete the course.
   • 2. a code word representing the letter G, used in radio communication.

   verb

   • 1. play golf: "he was a fixture at the golf club in Rockport, where he golfed until his early nineties"

   Word Origin late Middle English (originally Scots): perhaps related to Dutch kolf ‘club, bat’, used as a term in several Dutch games; golf, however, is recorded before these games.

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • G

     2

   • O

     1

   • L

     1

   • F

     4

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