Golfing is the doing of golf: that same game of hitting a small white ball into holes in the ground with clubs, trying to use as few hits as possible. English often turns a sport into an -ing word when we talk about doing it for fun: He likes golfing at the weekend. You can also put golfing in front of another noun: a golfing holiday, golfing shoes, a golfing friend. It feels a little lighter than the official name golf, more like the pastime. Though actually, many people never say golfing at all; they just say play golf, and that is just as correct. Golfing is not the player — that is golfer — and on a poster the sport is usually called golf.