golf

• n. ゴルフ; ゴルフゲーム
• vi. ゴルフをする
• n. （ゴルフの）人名；（西洋、ノルウェー語の）ゴルファー

スコットランド語が語源。

golf (n.)

mid-15c., Scottish gouf, usually taken as an alteration of Middle Dutch colf, colve "stick, club, bat," from Proto-Germanic *kulth- (cognates: Old Norse kolfr "clapper of a bell," German Kolben "mace, club, butt-end of a gun"). The game is from 14c., the word is first mentioned (along with fut-bol) in a 1457 Scottish statute on forbidden games (a later ordinance decrees, "That in na place of the realme thair be vsit fut-ballis, golf, or vther sic unprofitabill sportis" [Acts James IV, 1491, c.53]). Despite what you read on the Internet, "golf" is not an acronym. Golf ball attested from 1540s; the motorized golf-cart from 1951. Golf widow is from 1890.

Oh! who a golfer's bride would be,
Fast mated with a laddie
Who every day goes out to tee
And with him takes the caddie.

["The Golf Widow's Lament," in "Golf," Oct. 31, 1890]

golf (v.)

c. 1800, from golf (n.). Related: Golfed; golfing.

1. Walking and golf increased in popularity during the 1980 s.

1980年代にはハイキングやゴルフを楽しむ人が増えていました。

2.673 private golf clubs took part in a recent study.

673のプライベートゴルフクラブが最近の研究に参加した。

3.At least three British golf courses are now owned by the Japanese.現在、英国には少なくとも3つのゴルフ場が日本人の所有している。

4.Johnson was clad casually in slacks and a light blue golf shirt.

ジョンソンはカジュアルでゆったりしたズボンに、水色のゴルフシャツを合わせていた。

5.Weir broke his leg in a freak accident playing golf .

ウィルはゴルフをしていたときに起きた突飛な事故で足を折った。