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Golf

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Golf
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Olympisc 1900, 1904, 2016[1], 2020[2]
Golf

Golf (ēac ānsƿingoþ tō smǣtran ƿorde gehāten) is rihtscēotende battnotiende and clieƿennotiende gamen þǣr strutiende plegeras (ānsƿingoþeras), brūcende manig cynn batta, gesēcaþ tō sƿingenne clieƿen in ǣlc hol on ǣlcum ānsƿingoþƿege þā hƿīle þe hī gesēcaþ tō sƿingenne seldenost.

Ānsƿingoþ is ān þāra fēaƿena clieƿengamena þe ne þearf ful gemetgod gamenes geard. On stede þæs is þæt gamen gepleged on ānsƿingoþes "ƿegum", oþþe ānfealdlīce "ānsƿingoþƿeg", þāra þe ǣlc hæfþ ānlic timber, þēah þe ƿegas geƿunelīce habbaþ nigone eahtatīen holu. Ānsƿingoþ is tōmearcod on þǣra bēc laga ānsƿingoðes fram "playing a ball with club from the teeing ground into a hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules"; þis is āƿended on Englisc nēan þus: "plegan/sƿingan clieƿen mid bætte of þǣm underginnendan gearde in hol þurh sƿeng oþþe folgiende sƿengas æfter þǣm Lagum".

Ānsƿingoðes strutung is oftost pleged æfter þǣm læstan rīme sƿenga be ǣlcum menn, þe is gecūþ sƿā "sƿengmǣl plega", oþþe ānfealdlīce "sƿengplega", oþþe æfter þǣm læstan rīme sƿenga on þǣm mǣstum dǣle hola under fullum gamene, þe is gecūþ sƿā "stæpmǣl andefen plega", oþþe ānfealdlīce "ƿiþplega".