Golfer excited about a soft jumper will like this (8)
I believe the answer is:
leapfrog
'jumper will like this' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'golfer excited about a soft' is the wordplay.
'excited' indicates anagramming the letters.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'soft' becomes 'p' (musical abbreviation for 'piano', soft).
'golfer' anagrammed gives 'lefrog'.
'a'+'p'='ap'
'lefrog' enclosing 'ap' is 'LEAPFROG'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for leapfrog that I've seen before include "Advance by jumping over the opposition" , "Game in which players vault over each other" , "Children's game of jumping over each other" , "Jump over" , "Vaulting game" .)