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 Definitions of Golf

 Abnormal Ground Conditions
 Addressing the Ball
 Advice
 Ball Deemed to Move
 Loose Impediments
 Ball Holed
 Ball Lost
 Ball in Play
 Best-Ball
 Bunker
 Burrowing Animal
 Caddie
 Casual Water
 Committee
 Competitor
 Course
 Equipment
 Fellow-Competitor
 Flagstick
 Forecaddie
 Forms of Match Play
 Forms of Stroke Play
 Four-Ball
 Foursome
 Ground Under Repair
 Hazards
 Hole
 Holed
 Honor
 Lateral Water Hazard
 Line of Play
 Line of Putt
 Loose Impediments
 Lost Ball
 Marker
 Move or Moved
 Nearest Point of Relief
 Observer
 Obstructions
 Out of Bounds
 Outside Agency
 Partner
 Penalty Stroke
 Provisional Ball
 Putting Green
 Referee
 Rub of the Green
 Rule or Rules
 Side
 Single
 Stance
 Stipulated Round
 Stroke
 Substituted Ball
 Tee
 Teeing Ground
 Three-Ball
 Threesome
 Through the Green
 Water Hazard
 Wrong Ball
 Wrong Putting Green

Source: USGA.org 

  Stroke

A "stroke" is the forward movement of the club made with the intention of striking at and moving the ball, but if a player checks his downswing voluntarily before the clubhead reaches the ball he has not made a stroke.

 
 
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