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Outline of golf

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The MacDonald boys playing golf by 18th-century portrait painter Jeremiah Davison

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to golf:

Golf – precision club and ball sport, in which competing players (or golfers) use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest strokes.

What type of thing is golf?

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Aerial view of a golf course

Golf can be described as all of the following:

Variations of golf

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Miniature golf course in Bulltoftaparken in Malmö, Sweden
Snow golf

History of golf

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The Repton Bridge on Stoke Park's Golf Course, opened in July 1909

History of golf

Golf course

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Fairway bunkers at the Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Township, Michigan

Golf course

Golf courses around the world

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Rules of golf

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After a bunker shot, a player should rake the sand smooth again.

Rules of golf

Golf equipment

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Golf clubs in a golf bag
Golf cart

Golf equipment

Game play

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Golf culture

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A golf caddie, 1790, by Lemuel Francis Abbott

Golf organizations

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Golf competitions

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Golf by country

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Pebble Beach Golf Links

Media coverage of golf

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Golf on US media

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The Golf Channel focuses on live coverage of tournaments, as well as factual and instructional programming.
ABC golf commentator Chris Schenkel in 1964
Fox USGA commentator Greg Norman in 2013

Persons influential in golf

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Tiger Woods in 2007

Terminology

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See also

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References

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