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Golf is a tiny incorporated village in Palm Beach County, Florida, within the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida.

True to its name, Golf was founded in 1956 as a planned community built around a golf course.

The village took its name from Golf, Illinois, because some of its early settlers had come from that Chicago-area village and preferred the name.

Golf was officially incorporated on May 30, 1957.

At the 2020 census Golf had just 255 residents in 124 households, up only slightly from 252 in 2010 — and from just 35 residents back in 1960.

The entire village covers only about 0.83 square miles and is completely landlocked, enveloped by the city of Boynton Beach to its east and south.

Golf is famously wealthy: at the 2000 census its median household income was in excess of $200,000 and its per capita income was $144,956, among the highest figures in the United States.

In 2000, Golf was one of only four municipalities in Palm Beach County where English was the mother tongue of 100 percent of residents.

Golf sits in Florida's tropical zone — the only region of the 48 contiguous states with a tropical savanna climate, bordering on a tropical monsoon climate.