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golf

vr.tr.golf · ACT.ACT

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.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

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.

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.

What it is for: Not applicable; a sport.

It can be explain rules and play; relay competitions and handicaps; describe variants; route current results.

Distinguishing features

Stroke counting

Course variety

Handicap system

Etiquette tradition

What it looks like

Players with clubs on a landscaped course of fairways and greens.

Physical character

golfers worldwide: about 60 million - estimates

R&A founded: 1754 year

standard round: 18 holes

How it is recognised

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

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

ball game

is a kind of - in registry terms

sport with racquet/stick/club

is a kind of - in registry terms

Olympic sport

is governed by - and the USGA

The R&A

In practice

Families and kinds

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

Standards and regulation

Rules of Golf by the R&A and USGA

World Handicap System

Equipment standards

Tour and anti-doping rules

Failure modes and hazards

Stale results and rankings

Confusing variants with golf proper

Environmental debates over courses, with positions attributed

Also called

ground golfPark golfIndoor golffarmers golfwomen's golfcolfSnow golfbeach golfmen's golfBahn golfGolf AlaiUrban golf

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What golf is.

Definition.

Rules

Rules and play.

Rules

Rules.

  1. How is golf played, and what are the basic rules of stroke and match play? definition
  2. Is the question about golf, a variant such as park golf or a different club game? boundary

Equipment

Equipment and courses.

Equipment

Equipment.

  1. What clubs, balls and course features are used? definition
  2. Which entry fits golf course? action
Play Playing and improving.

Practice.

Handicap

Handicaps.

Handicap

Handicap.

  1. How does the World Handicap System work? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Learning

Learning.

Learning

Learning.

  1. How do beginners learn golf, and what etiquette applies? action
  2. Which entry fits golf instruction? action
Competition Competition.

Data.

Tours

Tours and majors.

Tours

Tours.

  1. How are professional tours and the majors organised, for men and women? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance

Results

Current results.

Results

Results.

  1. What are current rankings and results, from official sources? measurement
  2. Is the question about betting, which the model does not handle? boundary
Context History and variants.

Context.

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did golf develop from Scottish links and Dutch colf to a global sport? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of golf? action

Variants

Variants.

Variants

Variants.

  1. What are indoor golf, park golf, ground golf and farmers golf? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the specific variant? action

What the second pass must settle

  • 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?