[ɡɒlf], (Noun)

Definitions:
- 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

- a code word representing the letter G, used in radio communication


Phrases:

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

[ɡɒlf], (Verb)

Definitions:
- play golf
(e.g: he was a fixture at the golf club in Rockport, where he golfed until his early nineties)


Phrases:

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