Sentence:  Then he played nine imaginary holes of <WSD>golf</WSD> , choosing his handicap , his irons , his stance , his opponents , and his weather in detail , but the green of the links seemed faded in the light of his business worries . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  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