noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a boxing/tennis/golf etc champion
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The show will be opened by the former world boxing champion, Chris Eubank.
a football/tennis/golf etc club
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There’s a football club for the young people in the area.
a golf/swimming/tennis championship
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the Women's Golf Championship
a tennis/cricket/golf/rugby etc ball
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She was practising hitting golf balls.
crazy golf
golf ball
golf club
golf course
golf links
miniature golf
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
crazy
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Other activities: Fishing, tennis, crazy golf are all available.
good
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It is a must if you are to play good golf , and I suggest you learn it.
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Stark made another swing, and I closed my eyes and listened for the sounds of good golf .
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In fact, his colleagues know that if Levi is challenging, they had better play their best golf .
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The best of your countrymen have become good golf robots, outstanding golf robots, all swinging the club the same way.
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They have gone up somewhat since then, but Aberdovey still represents some of the best value golf in Britain.
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Stick with that idea of hearing the lovely sounds of good golf .
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If you would also like to play better golf then send for his brochure.
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Yet it is equally ludicrous for a city to ask its taxpayers to subsidize a private good such as golf .
local
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Seated on one of the barstools nearby was Mr Finlayson, the greenkeeper at the local golf course.
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Both the north and south coasts can be reached for day trips. Local Amenities: golf , fishing, walking.
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He helped to reorganize the local golf course so that students could play legally and cheaply.
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Most in the occult would be at home in your local golf club.
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Nearby, a local golf course offers special rates to course members.
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For further details on the Wilson range for ladies, contact your local golf professional.
miniature
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I grew up a connoisseur of pavilions and winter gardens and miniature golf courses.
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Bill says on the last visit to her Outer Banks cottage, he and Ann played miniature golf and discussed biotechnology.
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That's why they had torn down the children's hospital to make room for the miniature golf course.
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The Gores and the Clintons played miniature golf .
professional
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Beautifully located on the seafront at Hythe with a resident professional and golf lessons available.
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Almost every person who plays follows professional golf with something approaching befuddlement.
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They have been learning that professional golf is primarily a numbers game.
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My uncle, Ramon Sota, was playing professional golf and so were all my brothers.
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When you play professional golf you lose the ability to play simply for fun.
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He said professional golf was too financially-what word did he use?-insecure.
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He always associated professional golf with money.
round
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I played a round of golf in a group which included Prost and Mansell.
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I meet him regularly at charity events and we have had many a round of golf together.
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T: No, stay and have a round of golf !!!
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But you just watch Nick Faldo play a round of golf in a Major, no-one does it better.
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He enjoyed a round of golf and playing cricket for the village and that was about it.
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I did a few odds and ends in the garden on Saturday, played a round of golf on Sunday morning.
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However, one admiral arrived on the scene a little too early for a round of golf .
■ NOUN
bag
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An integral elasticated cord and clip is provided to attach the NU-GRIP to your golf bag .
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He looked at my golf bag .
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So lugging a heavy golf bag around for hours and having to keep his mouth shut is doubly daunting for him.
ball
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But with being a keen golfer, I developed a keen eye for a golf ball and a distance.
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A 3-ounce roll is the size of a golf ball .
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Hernias vary in size from a golf ball to a football and can strike at any age.
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I accept that a golf ball is inanimate.
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Reunion Tower, a downtown landmark, looks like a giant, electric golf ball on 50-story tee.
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It can detect a steel sphere half the size of a golf ball , at a range of 70 yards.
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This is the finest turf on which I have ever struck a golf ball .
cart
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He arrives driving a golf cart with two personal assistants who will never leave his side.
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They climbed into the car and she took off at maximum golf cart speed.
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In many cases a golf cart is included, and some packages add a free beer after the round!
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Whoever invented the golf cart deserves an honored place in the annals of sport.
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He used to hate golf carts .
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As far as we know, nobody ever pulled a drive-by shooting from a golf cart .
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Bateman and his crew tried to herd the geese themselves, as if they were cowboys on golf carts .
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Another problem is golfers are using golf carts , and they often must drive among the crowd between tees and greens.
club
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Why do golf clubs not give pitch repairers away free?
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And they could be rejected by fancy golf clubs .
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What better forum for conspicuous consumption than the locker-room or the golf club car-park?
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Club theft: Bishop Auckland police would like to hear from anyone offered golf clubs for sale following thefts over the weekend.
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This is when they were first married, and my father went out and joined a golf club .
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Wisley, which opened in September last year, claims to be Britain's first syndicated golf club .
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Then another gendarme ran up and joined the attack, using a steel golf club .
course
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There, the model home styles are named after lakes, springs and, more recently, famous golf courses .
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We continued our drive, away from the golf course and to-ward the sea.
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Environmentalists have declared war on the golf course .
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Even the golf course , visible ahead, was a splendid sight.
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Friends of the Earth want more protection, claiming golf courses distort the environment.
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Here were the hazards a golf course ought to have: a sense of hazard itself, j sense of mortality.
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A four-star hotel with its own championship golf course set in a hidden world of parkland, forest and lakes.
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Replacing a viable watershed will serve this desert city better than creating another golf course or housing development.
game
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He told her about Tommy and the weekly golf games .
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I was happy with my golf game .
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He needed a golf game , he needed Loulse.
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This is the week it all started for Peter Jacobsen last year, when his golf game pulled up alongside his personality.
pro
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The status of the golf pro was elevated from serfdom to secular divinity in 20 years.
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Seasoned golf pros have learned to adjust for abnormal strength when they are charged up.
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Which is why the majority of golf pros insist on GORE-TEX fabric.
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Something the wife of a golf pro would wear to a barbecue celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary.
swing
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Perhaps the most crucial part of the golf swing is the change of directions at the top of the backswing.
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Because the instructors are experts in a narrow area, the golf swing .
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Left forearm rotation does so many things in the golf swing .
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Just as tension spoils the golf swing , the fear of losing our job becomes paralyzing and makes the loss more likely.
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On the other hand, that is not an obvious conclusion from the dynamics of the golf swing .
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A minute later, Harrick was showing off his golf swing .
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Your first priority is to identify exactly what it is you are trying to achieve with your golf swing .
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There are about 247 things you need to do correctly to execute a proper golf swing .
tournament
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A golf tournament with royal patronage was too good an opportunity for a publicity-minded company to miss.
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Fees to play in the golf tournament are $ 325 per person or $ 1, 300 per foursome, Bertino said.
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The prized antlers were awarded to Sir Robin after a victory in the Treasury's golf tournament .
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In Tucson, January golf tournaments do the trick.
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I'd fight wherever there was a fairground booth near a golf tournament - and that was quite often.
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Imagine a single golf tournament stretched over that time.
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When Jack Nicklaus plays in a golf tournament , do you think he is playing under the same conditions as everybody else?
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Wiggins raises the money with a charity golf tournament each June.
■ VERB
build
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And if they build a golf course, it will use up to a million gallons of water a day.
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San Diego has hosted fairs and festivals, built zoos and golf courses, preserved beaches and mountain refuges.
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Do you build a golf course and make what could be one of the best courses in the world?
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Included in the sale was the 90-acre amusement park with restaurant, hotel, conference building and golf course.
enjoy
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He is married with three young children and enjoys golf , football, gardening and the theatre.
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Now 25, Jane does not pretend to have reached the point where she is back enjoying her golf .
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He enjoyed a round of golf and playing cricket for the village and that was about it.
hit
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Has Anderson ever been hit by a golf ball?
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When he hits an errant golf shot, or makes a mental error on the course, he gets aggravated.
include
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As well as tennis, other recreations include riding, golf and squash.
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Y., a range of activities, including golf , boating and fishing are offered in addition to horseback riding.
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The event also includes a golf tournament, banquet and barbecue, all featuring the Olympians.
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Her interests include golf , swimming and reading.
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Other sports on offer include tennis, mini golf and horseriding.
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Sporting and leisure facilities include golf , tennis, riding, restaurants, bars, nightclubs.
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Roy is currently organising a day which will include golf and mountain biking in the Trossachs.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
football/golf etc widow
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My wife has been a golf widow for the last 30 years.
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You've all heard of golf widows .
golf/opera etc nut
tennis/golf/swimming etc professional
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Barry Wood reports Pam Shriver has always been one of the most colourful tennis professionals .
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For further details on the Wilson range for ladies, contact your local golf professional .
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From the inter-war years a small number of tennis professionals played tournaments in the United States.
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He was, as golf professionals had been for a hundred years, a serf.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Adam Sandler stars as a hockey nut who becomes a professional golfer, turning golf tournaments into goof tournaments.
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Hernias vary in size from a golf ball to a football and can strike at any age.
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I made the putt for a birdie, the longest putt I had made in two weeks of golf .
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Local Activities: walks, horse-riding, tennis, golf , cycling.
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Other sporting activities available include: mini golf and bowling.
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Planned during the boom years of the late 1980s, it was to be the golf development parexcellence.
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So lugging a heavy golf bag around for hours and having to keep his mouth shut is doubly daunting for him.
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They put the detention basin in the golf course.