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golf

[golf, gawlf, gof] / gɒlf, gɔlf, gɒf /
NOUN
match play
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Asked by reporters if he would call the new presidential retreat at his golf club "Camp Donald", Trump replied, "Well, it's already called Trump International. It's one of the best golf courses in the world."

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Also, two-time major golf champion Bryson DeChambeau said that while it’s likely that moon landings have happened, some of the footage we’ve been shown might have been fake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

My driverless Jaguar picked me up in a golf course parking lot a three-minute walk from my condo complex.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Tyler Perry Studios boasts a replica of the White House, an airport terminal, two baseball fields, a strip mall, a residential neighborhood, and a golf course.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

How big it is and all the malls and tanning salons and even an indoor miniature golf course.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

He now has a weekly lunch with single and retired male neighbors, golfs, and has taken up pickleball.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

“It’s still hard, but that’s natural because a lot of players like golfing on the weekend,” said Jongseo Joseph Lee, president of the SoCal Dream Golf Club, who golfs twice a month on city courses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

She also golfs frequently and is reported to be playing off a handicap of low single figures.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2022

Perdue often golfs with Trump and speaks with him frequently by phone.

From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2021

"There's some golfs now if you boys never seen any."

From Lady Luck by Hugh Wiley

Two months later, a Secret Service agent shot at a gunman pointing a rifle on Trump’s golf course as the president golfed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026

In March of this year, Trump golfed with Finnish President Alexander Stubb in West Palm Beach, partnering in a club tournament Trump said the two men won.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025

For years after the campaign, the two men golfed together, and as vice president Mr. Biden had Mr. Burris and his granddaughter into the White House.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

But his 0-1 curveball was golfed over the right-field fence.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

During this summer I golfed very determinedly, buoyed up by the vain hope of becoming a first-class player—a "scratch" man.

From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson

The golf-mad president -- whose relaxed relationship with the game's rules was documented by sports journalist Rick Reilly in the 2019 book "Commander in Cheat" -- has repeatedly boasted about his golfing talent.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

He could have spent his whole life doing nothing but golfing and hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein, and he would have ended up vastly more wealthy than he is today.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Scheffler's surprising soliloquy about the importance of chasing golfing greatness caused a stir at Portrush last year and the four-time major winner flirted with similar territory at Birkdale.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The Wrights have dinner together every night and go golfing or walking together a few times a month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

He was dressed in golfing clothes and looked slightly ill at ease.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French



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