The phrase "a competitive golfer" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who plays golf at a high level, often participating in tournaments or competitions.
Example: "After years of practice and dedication, she finally became a competitive golfer, participating in several national tournaments."
Alternatives: "an amateur golfer" or "a tournament golfer."
She was also a competitive golfer and active tennis enthusiast, avid reader, linguist, world traveler and art collector.
Mrs. Balding was a pioneer sportswoman, a competitive golfer and bridge player and a crack shot well into her 90's.
A longtime veteran on the European Tour, Smyth has remained a competitive golfer into his 40's, winning last year's Madeira Island Open.
Earlier, Perry, whose top finish at the Masters is a tie for 12th in 1995, spent several minutes explaining how his father, Ken, had molded him into a competitive golfer.
Golfers' careers are much longer than those of other athletes, and, even after retirement, successful endorsers are often still able to earn huge sums of money: in the nineteen-nineties, long after he had stopped being a competitive golfer, Arnold Palmer was still making as much as sixteen million dollars a year from his endorsements and other brand-driven businesses.
Neville Colman was an outstanding athlete in high school, a competitive swimmer, golfer and soccer player on a boys' team representing what was then Transvaal Province.
As a competitive amateur golfer who has played in three national championships and won four club championships in three different states (but who has never been a great putter), I am very much in favor of the ban.
He pointed out that the pool of competitive golfers was much deeper today, and life was much less single-minded.
"I remember thinking, really for the first time, that they're carrying on the Turnesa name as the third generation of competitive golfers, and if they have sons who play golf, it will be carried further".
A competitive sailor and golfer, Mrs. Dickinson won the club championship at Arcola Country Club in 1968 and, later that year, scored a hole-in-one.
And, as its further promoted by individual courses and word-of-mouth spreads throughout the season, the hope is that it brings out more golfers to Kemper facilities throughout the U.S. In a competitive industry, offering golfers a little something extra can only help bring in business.
