Grammar queen

Thanks for the info. I've never been part of a blog (?) before, so I don't know how things work. I will try and do this right in the future!

Touché. When I said sorry, I was just mimicking @iacas. I think the term "golfing" has been accepted into our language simply because so many people use it. That doesn't validate it, but that's what I think has happened. I agree that many people who say golfING are not golfers. The next time my tennis playing friends ask me if I'm going golfing, I'll ask then when they're going tennising. MAybe then we can stem this tide! ?

Just because a baseball announcer - or anyone else for that matter - uses the word golf as if it's a verb, doesn't make it so. He probably doesn't know any better. Plenty of people are using words and punctuation incorrectly, both spoken and in print. But that fact doesn't change what IS correct. Sorry!

Golf is a NOUN, not a verb. Any dictionary that says it's a verb is wrong. Golf is a game that is played. Play is the verb and golf is the object of that verb. Just like these other games: tennis, soccer, basketball, volleyball, polo, bridge, and others which I haven't thought of. One doesn't say I'm tennising, or I'm basketballing, or poloing. These are nouns and therefore can't be gerunds. On the other hand, ski and swim and look and think are verbs. One can say: "I like to ski" or "I skied yesterday" or "Skiing is fun". All these sentences are correct because ski is a VERB!