golf-player

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Just like a non-stamp collector doesn't collect stamps, a non golf-player doesn't play golf, an atheist just doesn't do god.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010
Pitney is the champion golf-player of the court, but it must be admitted that his legal attainments overshadow his excellence in the Scottish game.

Our Highest Court 1917
He was what you might call a human hazard -- a golf-player would probably have thought of him in that connection.

Europe Revised 1910
She is a scratch golf-player, plays a good game of tennis, rides to hounds, and visits the poor.

Greatheart 1910
He was a good golf-player; if he had a loaded stick, he could easily take the serpent's head off, he thought; but there was no stick.

The Girl from Montana Grace Livingston Hill 1906
"Sooner be a mail-carrier than a golf-player," he answered stoutly.

Bunker Bean Harry Leon Wilson 1903
The vast, undulating green and white expanse, save for a distant golf-player with the inevitable ragged following, seemed bare of human figures.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
Behind the tiny promontory on which the fortress crouched was the town, separated from it by a stretch of water so narrow that a golf-player, using the quay of the custom-house for a tee, could have driven a ball against the prison wall.

The White Mice Richard Harding Davis 1890