golf
Let an agent explain golf and its rules, relay competitions, handicapping and history from official sources, describe variants, and route current results to official data.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What golf is.
Rules
Rules and play.
Rules
Rules.
- How is golf played, and what are the basic rules of stroke and match play? definition
- Is the question about golf, a variant such as park golf or a different club game? boundary
Equipment
Equipment and courses.
Equipment
Equipment.
- What clubs, balls and course features are used? definition
- Which entry fits golf course? action
Play Playing and improving.
Handicap
Handicaps.
Handicap
Handicap.
- How does the World Handicap System work? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Learning
Learning.
Learning
Learning.
- How do beginners learn golf, and what etiquette applies? action
- Which entry fits golf instruction? action
Competition Competition.
Tours
Tours and majors.
Tours
Tours.
- How are professional tours and the majors organised, for men and women? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Results
Current results.
Results
Results.
- What are current rankings and results, from official sources? measurement
- Is the question about betting, which the model does not handle? boundary
Context History and variants.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did golf develop from Scottish links and Dutch colf to a global sport? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of golf? action
Variants
Variants.
Variants
Variants.
- What are indoor golf, park golf, ground golf and farmers golf? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific variant? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- ground golf, Park golf, Indoor golf, farmers golf, women's golf, colf, Snow golf, beach golf, men's golf, Bahn golf, Golf Alai, Urban golf
What it is Filled
A club-and-ball sport in which players use clubs to hit a small ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible, played over nine or eighteen holes in stroke or match play under rules set by the R&A and the USGA, with professional tours, major championships and Olympic status, women and men competitions, and variants and relatives such as indoor golf, park golf and ground golf in Japan, farmers golf and the historical Dutch colf; golf is played by tens of millions worldwide.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain golf and its rules, relay competitions, handicapping and history from official sources, describe variants, and route current results to official data.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Stroke counting
- Course variety
- Handicap system
- Etiquette tradition
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Help a player break the rules or falsify scores and handicaps.
- Encourage play during lightning or close to other groups in range.
- Use a player's location on a course to track them without consent.
Only with a human decision
- Changing an official handicap record.
May
- Explain golf rules and handicaps from the official rules.
- Track scores and handicaps the player has asked it to keep.
Moral aspects Filled
- Fair play depends on players reporting their own scores honestly.
- Golf's history of exclusion by sex, race and class still shapes access to the sport.
Who is affected
- Players
- Course staff
Owners Filled
Steward
Golf's governing bodies set the rules; clubs keep competition records.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q13137940 - registry parent class
- Q212434 - registry parent class
- Q877517 - registry parent class
related
- ball game - in registry terms
- sport with racquet/stick/club - in registry terms
- Olympic sport - in registry terms
- The R&A - and the USGA
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.golf
- Wikidata: Q5377 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5377)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- golfers worldwide: about 60 million - estimates
- R&A founded: 1754 year
- standard round: 18 holes
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Club-and-ball sport played into holes
- Stroke and match play; professional tours; indoor, park, ground and farmers golf; historical colf
- Mini golf is putting only; croquet uses mallets and hoops; hockey uses sticks on a field
- Players with clubs on a landscaped course of fairways and greens.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain rules and play
- relay competitions and handicaps
- describe variants
- route current results
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Stale results and rankings
- Confusing variants with golf proper
- Environmental debates over courses, with positions attributed
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Rules of Golf by the R&A and USGA
- World Handicap System
- Equipment standards
- Tour and anti-doping rules
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a sport.
- stroke play and match play
- professional golf: PGA Tour, LPGA, DP World Tour, majors
- amateur and club golf with handicaps
- women golf
- indoor and simulator golf
- Japanese park golf and ground golf
- farmers golf and other novelty variants
- historical games such as colf and chole
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q5377: golf - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Golf - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should park golf and ground golf be separate entries?
- How should official records be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming variants and a historical game; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q5377/spec.json