ungolfed

ungolfed

English

Etymology

un- +‎ golfed

Adjective

ungolfed (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Not familiar with, or not involved in, the sport of golf.
   • 1917, The American Golfer (volume 18, page 85)

     […] the strong light that it shed upon the well-meaning stupidity often exhibited in these modern times by the ungolfed multitude.

   • 2009, Tom Coyne, A Course Called Ireland

     When the ungolfed got word of my endeavor, they questioned my sanity. But when golfers heard about how I was spending my summer, they questioned my wife's. I was either crazy or the luckiest bastard on the planet, […]

2. (colloquial) On which golf is not played.
   • 2014, Christopher Cairns, No Tie Required: How the Rich Stole Golf

     The persistence of golf's image as a game with a certain cachet, even as it was spreading to hitherto ungolfed corners of Britain and, indeed, British society, presented planners with a problem […]

3. (programming) Not having been written in short form according to the challenge of code golf.

   the original, ungolfed code