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Court date for driver? (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

wood

'driver?' is the definition.
(wood is a type of driver - type of golf club)

'court date' is the wordplay.
'court' becomes 'woo' (both can mean to romance someone).
'date' becomes 'd' (common abbreviation eg in DOB, date of birth).
'woo'+'d'='WOOD'

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for wood that I've seen before include "Forest - golf club - biased bowl" , "Timber" , "Section of orchestra" , "Trees; club" , "'Under Milk - - ' (lit.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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