This article is about the sport of golf. For other meanings, see Golf (disambiguation). Putting can also refer to shot put.

Golf (gowf in Scots) is a sport where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. It is defined in the Rules of Golf as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."

Golf originated in Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. The oldest course in the world is The Old Links at Musselburgh. Golf, in essentially the form we know it today, has been played on Scotland's Musselburgh Links since 1672, and earlier versions of the game had been played in the British Isles and the low-countries of Northern Europe for several centuries before that. Although often viewed as an elite pastime, golf is an increasingly popular sport that can be played for one's entire life.

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Amid Illness and Injury, A Season Goes Awry
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:05:48 -0000
Adam Scott, whose talent has made him one of the PGA Tour’s most promising players, is approaching his last chance to win a major this season.
P.G.A. Notebook: Honored for Service to P.G.A. After Promising Career Is Cut Short
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:05:49 -0000
Dennis Walters, whose competitive career was ended by an accident in 1974, received the P.G.A.’s highest annual honor, the P.G.A. Distinguished Service Award.
On Par: Forgotten Architects, Timeless Courses
Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:32:22 -0000
In recent decades, there has been nostalgia for the enduring work from golf’s golden age of architecture, roughly defined as the period from 1910 to the late 1930s.

L.A. Times - Golf

Course is the star at PGA Championship
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
There's no Tiger Woods, but there is Oakland Hills, which is hosting its ninth major championship. BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Sometimes the stage can be as mesmerizing as any of the stars who cross it.
PGA Championship is up for grabs without Tiger Woods
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Phil Mickelson, Retief Goosen and Vijay Singh are among the group who can make a statement without having to look over their shoulders for Woods. What's another major without Tiger Woods? It's the PGA Championship, and like the British Open last month, it's an open invitation to take advantage of Woods' absence and step up to the plate.
Ji-Yai Shin wins Women's British Open
Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Shin, a 20-year-old from South Korea, cards a final-round 66 to win the British title by three shots. SUNNINGDALE, England -- She's a sublime 5-foot-1 force with a ready laugh and a daydream golf game. She's prone to paint every other fingernail lime-green with the others canary-yellow to match her shirt from Sunday. She wears perpetual eyeglasses and tucks tees and the scorecard pencil into the stem of her ponytail.

ESPN.com - Golf

Sobel: PGA Championship Live Blog
Jason Sobel Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:27:14 -0700
Can't watch all the live action from Oakland Hills? Stay tuned to Jason Sobel's live blog, which will be updated throughout all four rounds of the 90th PGA Championship.
Sobel: Don't sleep on the 90th PGA Championship
Jason Sobel Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:59:43 -0700
If the British Open taught us anything, it's that golf majors -- even sans Tiger -- can produce great drama. So feel free to ignore this week's PGA Championship. But you might just miss a piece of history, writes ESPN.com's Jason Sobel.
Azinger: Tiger-less U.S. is Ryder Cup underdog
Reuters Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:11:19 -0700
The absence of the injured Tiger Woods from next month's Ryder Cup has bolstered Europe's status as favorites, according to U.S. captain Paul Azinger.

SI.com - Golf

Austin's obsessed with making Ryder Cup
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:30:08 -0400
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- By any measure, Woody Austin has had a solid and successful career playing golf. Yet he believes his resume has one obvious gap in it.
Thursday at the 2008 PGA Championship
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:45:00 -0400
Capt. Azinger talks Faldo rivalry, Ryder Cup
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:30:07 -0400
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Paul Azinger called Nick Faldo something that rhymes with "Nick" just before the Masters in April. Since then, Azinger has been doing his best to keep a low profile -- especially when there are European and British media in the room.

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