Outline of golf
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to golf:
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The MacDonald boys playing golf by 18th-century portrait painter Jeremiah Davison
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:
- a form of entertainment or recreation
Variations of golf
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Miniature golf course in Bulltoftaparken in Malmö, Sweden
- Scoring
- Formats
- Variations
History of golf
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The Repton Bridge on Stoke Park's Golf Course, opened in July 1909
Golf course
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Fairway bunkers at the Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Township, Michigan
Rules of golf
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After a bunker shot, a player should rake the sand smooth again.
Golf equipment
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Golf clubs in a golf bag
Game play
Golf culture
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A golf caddie, 1790, by Lemuel Francis Abbott
Golf organizations
Golf competitions
- Grand Slam
- Professional tours
- Team competitions
- Multi-sport games
- Rankings
Golf by country
Media coverage of golf
Golf on US media
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The Golf Channel focuses on live coverage of tournaments, as well as factual and instructional programming.
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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 LPGA major championship winning golfers
- List of Champions Tour major championship winning golfers
- List of golfers with most Asian Tour wins
- List of golfers with most Challenge Tour 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 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
Terminology
See also
References
External links
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