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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?
Golf can be described as all of the following:
- a form of entertainment or recreation
Variations of golf
- Scoring
- Formats
- Variations
History of golf
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The Repton Bridge on Stoke Park's Golf Course, opened in July 1909
- Timeline of golf
- Golf book
Golf course
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Fairway bunkers at the Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Township, Michigan
Golf courses around the world
- List of golf courses in Canada
- List of golf courses in India
- List of golf courses in North Dakota
- List of golf courses in Portugal
- List of golf courses in the Philippines
- List of golf courses in the United Kingdom
Rules of golf
Golf equipment
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Golf clubs in a golf bag
Game play
Golf culture
Golf organizations
- International Golf Federation
- The R&A
- United States Golf Association
- Professional Golfers' Association (Great Britain and Ireland)
- Professional Golfers' Association of America
Golf competitions
- Grand Slam
- Professional tours
- Team competitions
- Multi-sport games
- Rankings
Golf by country
- Golf in Australia
- Golf in China
- Golf in India
- Golf in Ireland
- Golf in the Philippines
- Golf in Russia
- Golf in Scotland
- Golf in Thailand
- Golf in the United States
Media coverage of golf
Golf on US media
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ABC golf commentator Chris Schenkel in 1964
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Fox USGA commentator Greg Norman in 2013
- Broadcast television partners
- Cable television partners
- Radio partners
- Personalities by network
- Other programs
- Golf publications
Persons influential in golf
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Tiger Woods in 2007
- List of male golfers
- List of female golfers
- List of men's major championships winning golfers
- List of golfers with most Asian Tour wins
- List of golfers with most Challenge Tour wins
- List of golfers with most Champions Tour major championship wins
- List of golfers with most European Tour wins
- List of golfers with most Japan Golf Tour wins
- List of golfers with most LPGA Tour wins
- List of golfers with most LPGA major championship wins
- List of golfers with most Ladies European Tour wins
- List of golfers with most PGA Tour Champions wins
- List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins
- List of golfers with most Korn Ferry Tour wins
- List of golfers with most wins in one PGA Tour event
- List of golf course architects
- List of Olympic medalists in golf