Outline of golf

The MacDonald boys playing golf by 18th-century portrait painter Jeremiah Davison

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to golf:

Golf – precision club and ball sport, in which competing players (or golfers) use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest strokes.

Description of golf

Aerial view of a golf course

Golf can be described as all of the following:

• a form of entertainment or recreation
  • a game
    • a ball game
  • a sport
    • a precision sport

Variations of golf

Miniature golf course in Bulltoftaparken in Malmö, Sweden

Snow golf

Main article: Variations of golf

• Scoring
  • Stroke play
  • Match play
  • Stableford
  • Skins game
• Formats
  • Four-ball (better-ball)
  • Foursome (alternate shot)
• Variations
  • Long drive
  • Speed golf
  • Pitch and putt
  • Miniature golf
  • Clock golf
  • Indoor golf
  • Beach golf
  • Snow golf
  • Disc golf
  • Footgolf
  • Sholf
  • Dart golf

History of golf

The Repton Bridge on Stoke Park's Golf Course, opened in July 1909

History of golf

• Timeline of golf
  • Timeline of golf history (1353–1850)
  • Timeline of golf history (1851–1945)
  • Timeline of golf history (1945–1999)
  • Timeline of golf (2000–present)
• Golf book

Golf course

Fairway bunkers at the Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Township, Michigan

Golf course

• Driving range
• Greenskeeper
• Hazards
• Links
• Teeing ground

Golf courses around the world

• List of golf courses in Canada
• List of golf courses in India
• List of golf courses in North Dakota
• List of golf courses in Portugal
• List of golf courses in the Philippines
• List of golf courses in the United Kingdom

Rules of golf

After a bunker shot, a player should rake the sand smooth again.

Rules of golf

• Penalty
• Scoring
• Golf etiquette

Golf equipment

Golf clubs in a golf bag

Golf cart

Golf equipment

• Golf clubs
  • Wood
  • Putter
  • Iron
  • Wedge
    • Pitching wedge
    • Gap wedge
    • Sand wedge
    • Lob wedge
  • Hybrid
  • Obsolete golf clubs
• Golf ball
  • Golf ball retriever
• Golf bag
• Golf cart
• Golf trolley
• Tee

Game play

• Golf swing
• Drive

Golf culture

A golf caddie, 1790, by Lemuel Francis Abbott

• Caddie
• Golf instruction
• Golf mirror
• List of golf video games

Golf organizations

• International Golf Federation
• The R&A
• United States Golf Association
• Professional Golfers' Association (Great Britain and Ireland)
• Professional Golfers' Association of America
• Golf Australia

Golf competitions

• Grand Slam
  • Men's major golf championships
  • Women's major golf championships
  • Senior major golf championships
• Professional tours
  • LPGA
  • PGA Tour
  • PGA European Tour
• Team competitions
  • Ryder Cup
  • Presidents Cup
  • Solheim Cup
  • International Crown
  • Seve Trophy
  • EurAsia Cup
  • Walker Cup
  • Eisenhower Trophy
  • Curtis Cup
  • Espirito Santo Trophy
• Multi-sport games
  • Golf at the Summer Olympics
  • Golf at the Asian Games
  • Golf at the Pacific Games
  • Golf at the Pan American Games
  • Golf at the Summer Universiade
  • Golf at the Youth Olympic Games
• Rankings
  • Official World Golf Ranking
  • Women's World Golf Rankings
  • World Amateur Golf Ranking

Golf by country

Pebble Beach Golf Links

• Golf in Australia
• Golf in China
• Golf in India
• Golf in Ireland
• Golf in the Philippines
• Golf in Russia
• Golf in Scotland
• Golf in Thailand
• Golf in the United States

Media coverage of golf

Golf on US media

The Golf Channel focuses on live coverage of tournaments, as well as factual and instructional programming.

ABC golf commentator Chris Schenkel in 1964

Fox USGA commentator Greg Norman in 2013

• Broadcast television partners
  • PGA Tour on ABC
  • PGA Tour on CBS
  • Golf on Fox
  • Golf Channel on NBC
• Cable television partners
  • Golf on ESPN
  • Fox Sports 1
  • Golf Channel
  • Golf on TNT
  • PGA Tour on USA
  • Golf Channel
    • The Big Break
    • Feherty
    • Fore Inventors Only
    • Golf Central
    • Highway 18
    • Live From...
    • Shell's Wonderful World of Golf
• Radio partners
  • ESPN Radio
  • SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio
• Personalities by network
  • List of ESPN/ABC golf commentators
  • List of PGA Tour on CBS commentators
  • Fox USGA#Commentators
  • List of Golf Channel personalities
  • List of Golf Channel on NBC commentators
  • Golf on TNT#Commentators
  • PGA Tour on USA#Commentators
• Other programs
  • Dan Doh!!
  • Défi mini-putt
  • The Golf Show
  • Monday Night Golf
  • The Scottish Golf Show
  • Wandering Golfer
• Golf publications
  • Golf Digest
  • Golf Magazine
  • Golf World
  • Golfweek
  • Links
  • Travel + Leisure Golf
  • List of golf video games

Persons influential in golf

Tiger Woods in 2007

• List of male golfers
• List of female golfers
• List of men's major championships winning golfers
• List of LPGA major championship winning golfers
• List of Champions Tour major championship winning golfers
• List of golfers with most Asian Tour wins
• List of golfers with most Challenge Tour wins
• List of golfers with most European Tour wins
• List of golfers with most Japan Golf Tour wins
• List of golfers with most LPGA Tour wins
• List of golfers with most Ladies European Tour wins
• List of golfers with most PGA Tour Champions wins
• List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins
• List of golfers with most Korn Ferry Tour wins
• List of golfers with most wins in one PGA Tour event
• List of golf course architects
• List of Olympic medalists in golf

Terminology

• Glossary of golf

See also

• Outline of sports

External links

• The R&A, St Andrews
• USGA: United States Golf Association Archived 2021-08-08 at the Wayback Machine
• International Golf Federation (IGF)