golfer

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
golf/ɡɒlf/

▶noun

• 1 a game played on a large open-air course, the aim of which is to strike a small, hard ball with a club into a series of small holes with the fewest possible strokes.

• 2 a code word representing the letter G, used in radio communication.

▶verb (often as noun golfing) play golf.

– derivatives
golfer noun.

– origin ME (orig. Scots): perh. rel. to Du. kolf ‘club, bat’.