Only compete dorks and Mucci Morons use the word Golf as a verb. Do you tennis? Do you basketball? Do you chess? Hell no.
I don't, but I cycle and camp and fish and hunt. I also write and have two degrees in English. What's your point?
I don't like the word pastry, but I don't get to make up rules and pretend that it's not part of the English language. Seriously, who's the authority for claiming that "to golf" isn't a verb? Melvyn? Personally, I'll stick with the conclusion of literally every dictionary in the English language.
I'll go with Jason's analysis....
Also, on the other matters that often confound and upset some of our traditionalists in the appropriate wardrobe department; I find it odd that there are such wide conventions of wardrobe and attire regulation, that violations is deemed sacrilegious. The requirement that at Temple or Mosques or in the Vatican or other holy places where religion is practiced -a cover (as the marines say)- is required on the head of females in some religions ,on men in other religions, and acceptable or not, in others. It is all down to whose house it is, and what their traditions and beliefs are. BUT, a private golf club both has the right to require no hats in the clubhouse if it is a private club, and waive that idea if they want. What is not right, IMHO, is a public or open to the public course, that imposes such a regulation with a threat to with hold access to the public venue (particularly publicly owned public venues) for non-conformance with the private club down the street. The same actually is true in my view on the jeans, or cargo short, etc. If a club is private, let them have their rules, it is their right. Often it is not down to rules, and just a very strong social convention and outcast process against the person that violates the etiquette code. But, I also wonder when and who the folks were back in the day, who at private clubs required the hat be removed in clubhouses. Was there a previous era where it was not a big deal and then some 'Victorian' era set of conventions came about?
Finally, should young people step back from being golfers if they become ostracized by older members if they break conventional attire norms set arbitrarily by older members? What if the younger generation assimilates new wardrobe conventions that are radically different to the older set, and completely normal for the younger generation? Who yields, and who doesn't; and how does that get us going forward as a community of golfers?