Polo vs. Golf — What's the Difference?

Polo is a horseback ball game, a traditional field sport and one of the world's oldest known team sports. The game is played by two opposing teams with the objective of scoring using a long-handled wooden mallet to hit a small hard ball through the opposing team's goal.

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not utilize a standardized playing area, and coping with the varied terrains encountered on different courses is a key part of the game.

A game of Eastern origin resembling hockey, played on horseback with a long-handled mallet

A game played on a large outdoor course with a series of 9 or 18 holes spaced far apart, the object being to propel a small, hard ball with the use of various clubs into each hole with as few strokes as possible.

A game played by two teams of three or four players on horseback who are equipped with long-handled mallets for driving a small wooden ball through the opponents' goal.

To play this game

Water polo.

To play this game at (a location)

A polo shirt.

(sports) A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.

(uncountable) A ball game where two teams of players on horseback use long-handled mallets to propel the ball along the ground and into their opponent's goal.

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The game of ice polo, one of the ancestors of ice hockey; a similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.

(intransitive) To play the game of golf.

(countable) A polo shirt.

(computing) To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)

A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.

A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.

(Philippines) A dress shirt.

To play at golf.

Alternative case form of Polo

A game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes

A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.

Play golf

A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.

A game similar to hockey played by swimmers.

A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands.

Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)

A game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball