How To Pronounce Golf

In British English, golf is pronounced /ɡɒlf/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ɡʷɒɫf]. In American English, it is pronounced /ɡɑːlf/.

Golf has one syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.