The manner in which some play it, yes.

I think golf is low on the list of games and sports that can also be described as artistic.  It mostly requires skill and precision.  Not so much creativity.

If any part of golf can be considered artistic, it would be some of the courses.

As for the golfer, perhaps one's swing finish pose. 

If art is defined as self expression; golf qualifies.  

I have a hard time describing golf as a form of art, heck some people have a hard time describing it as a sport :)

a game I have no doubt in.

If Charlie Rose said it, it's false.

Golf is a dance...

Yeah, one must learn the technical aspects...

But if one cannot FEEL and EXPRESS the music one will never truly achieve mastery!

Yep, I'm a lousy dancer, too. 

You can pretty much call anything an art these days. The word has lost all meaning.

Golf is art.....high art. It absolutely is.

If you google 'art' lots of definitions show up involving skill acquired through experience, observation, expression of emotions, visual beauty, etc.

I think golf has lot or even most of the elements. In addition it is full of paradoxes and has this mystique of being inexplicably hard in spite of a simple looking motion. Watching some swings evoke similar feeling to looking at a painting masterpiece.  

And how about courses? Some of them in existence can only be best described at sheer art.

I love it whatever it is !