{
  "id": "golf.sport",
  "term": "golf",
  "sense": "sport",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "golf",
  "domain": "sport",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a game where people use a tool to move an object toward a hole with as few actions as possible",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "game.playful",
      "tools.tool",
      "entities.object",
      "space.extent",
      "action.deed",
      "change.process",
      "people.social",
      "touch.together",
      "toward.spatial",
      "use.application",
      "holes.empty-regions",
      "motion.movement",
      "object.entity",
      "possible.potential"
    ],
    "interaction": "people use tools to set objects in motion toward holes, counting actions within a structured game.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "goal-directed movement",
      "minimal action objective",
      "scoring based on attempt count"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Tiger Woods won the 1997 Masters Tournament at Augusta National, finishing 18 under par.",
      "domain": "sports"
    },
    {
      "text": "The St Andrews Links in Scotland has hosted organized golf play since 1552, recorded in town council minutes.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A robotic putting machine at MIT’s CSAIL lab sank 1,000 consecutive 3-foot putts in a controlled test.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "game.playful",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "tools.tool",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "golf",
    "golfed",
    "golfing",
    "golfs"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts identified in 'CONCEPTS THE DEFINITION LEANS ON BUT THE RECORD OMITS'. Definition retained as correct and minimal; components now fully support it."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-golf.sport"
}