However, many prefer to use golfk\u00fala.\u00a0 K\u00fala in Icelandic has a broader meaning referring to any roundshaped objects such as for example j\u00f3lak\u00fala (pron j\u00f3= similar to the jo in jo-jo in English + la = j\u00f3la=meaning christmas + k\u00fala = christmas(ball)ornament.). The “golf” in golfk\u00fala is narrowing it down to the round shaped objects used in golf – “golf-cool-a.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Other Icelandic golfterms:<\/p>\n
skrambi = double bogey<\/p>\n
skolli = bogey<\/p>\n
par = par<\/p>\n
fugl = birdie<\/p>\n
\u00f6rn = eagle<\/p>\n
albatros = double eagle<\/p>\n
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Golfing Year \u00a0or as we would say in Icelandic: Gle\u00f0ileg j\u00f3l og gott n\u00fdtt golf\u00e1r!<\/strong><\/p>\n If you decide to come to Iceland for a golfbreak it might come in handy to know a few basic golf terms in Icelandic. The name for club in Icelandic is kylfa (pron: kill-va) and the name for golfball is either golfbolti or golfk\u00fala (pron.: golf-cool-a). There is an ongoing debate whether to use the word golfbolti or golfk\u00fala for golfball in Icelandic. The Icelandic Golf Association has translated the term golfball or ball with golfbolti or bolti in the Icelandic translation of the Rules of R&A. So bolti or golfbolti is the offical term for golfball in Icelandic. However, many prefer to use golfk\u00fala.\u00a0 K\u00fala in Icelandic has a Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":2348,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/8127842-2012-new-year-illustration-mit-weihnachtskugel-300x212.jpg\" "\\"8127842-2012-new-year-illustration-mit-weihnachtskugel\\"")
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