golfer
- noun
- /ˈɡɔlfər/
- During the 1920s, my mother had herself been a golfer, and she dearly loved the game.
- a golfer plays
- a professional golfer
- a novice golfer
All great golfers, all the really great golfers have highly evolved will.
- All great golfers, all the really great golfers have highly evolved will.
- Well, great, but you'll be the worst golfer in the world.
- Korean golfers are some of the best on earth, in fact.
- So that's one of my goals is to be an official scratch golfer.
- I'm not ready to become a full time golfer, but I don't quite know what that is.
- So they paid a lot of money to a bunch of high end golfers to leave the PGA Tour to start up this new tour.
- But he never had a really a formal education, but he was a hell of a golfer.
Examples
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After years of hard work, she became a professional golfer on the national circuit.
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Like even Tiger Woods, greatest golfer on earth and a coach.
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I want you to find me the best golfer we have.
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You should just be a golfer.
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We'll be right back with golfer Justin Thomas.
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And this guy who's not a very good golfer hit the only hole in one of his life.
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Well, Casey Martin is a very good golfer, able to compete at the highest levels of golf.
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In the meantime, white and black golfers played on the same courses without incident.
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But the big thing that all golfers want is they want to go play golf at Saint Andrews in Scotland.
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A couple of golfers were standing next to their cart and clapping their hands.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
A person who plays golf for fun or as a job
Compounds
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Golfer comes from the sport name golf, which probably comes from an old word for the wooden 'club' used to hit the ball, similar to Dutch kolf. The ending -er means 'a person who does something', just like teacher or worker, so a golfer is simply 'a person who plays golf'.