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A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner. [Scot.] Strutt.

One who plays golf. [Scot.]

heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.

A large hook or crook, as for a pot over a fire; specif., an iron- headed golf club with a straight, narrow face and a long shaft.

To bungle; to manage awkwardly; to treat or play unskillfully; as, to foozle a stroke in golf.

Consisting of four; requiring four participants. [Scot. or Golf]

A game. See Golf. [Scot.] Halliwell.

A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green.

A golf club like the iron, but with a shorter head, slightly more lofted, used chiefly for short approaches.

A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.

putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.

(Golf) To scrape the ground with the sole of the club, before striking the ball, in making a stroke.

The nodule of earth from which the ball is struck in golf.

As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity. For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love. Dryden.