Golf (disambiguation)

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Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams of players strike a ball into a hole using several types of clubs. Other uses of the term include:

Contents 1 Sports 2 Games 3 Automobiles 4 Acronyms 5 Places 6 Other 7 See also

[edit] Sports

• Miniature golf
• Disc golf
• Blind golf, a version of golf adapted for blind and partially sighted players

[edit] Games

• Golf (Atari 2600), a video game for the Atari 2600
• Golf (video game), a video game for the NES by Nintendo
• Golf (card game), two different card games
• Perl, a programming language whose community developed a competitive pastime called "golf", which involves writing the smallest program to accomplish a task
• Golf (Game Boy), a video game for the Game Boy by Nintendo
• Word golf, a game to find the shortest sequence of words between two others changing one letter at a time
• Shot Online, a multiplayer online golf-playing game allowing character development and play against other users

[edit] Automobiles

• Volkswagen Golf, a model of car
• Golf class car, a type of car, named after the VW Golf

[edit] Acronyms

• General Officer Logistic Forum
• Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden, an urban legend about origin of the name of the game of golf
• Geometrically Oriented Linear Force, part of the book title The Golfing Machine: The Star System of G.O.L.F. (Geometrically Oriented Linear Force), by Homer Kelley, that proposes using alignments, rather than positions, to build better golf swings
• Global Oscillations at Low Frequencies - Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) experiment instrument that measures velocity variations of the whole solar disk to explore the core of the sun
• Goal-Oriented Leadership Function
• God Offers Love and Forgiveness (sometimes "God Offers Love Forgiveness")
• God Our Loving Father
• Green Oxygen Light and Foot; oxygen atoms emit green light at high collision energies; see Aurora (astronomy)
• Ground Ordinance Launch Facility

[edit] Places

• Golf, Florida, USA, a village
• Golf, Illinois, USA, a village

[edit] Other

• G, the letter, in the NATO phonetic alphabet
• Golf Records
• Golf class submarine, used by the Soviet Navy
• The Golf Channel, an American cable TV network focused on golf
• Golf (film), a 1922 film starring Oliver Hardy

[edit] See also

• Gulf