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Project warning of a golfer's form (8)

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forecast

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'project' is the definition.
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'warning of a golfer's form' is the wordplay.
'warning of a golfer' becomes 'fore' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'form' becomes 'cast' (casting is a kind of forming).
'fore'+'cast'='FORECAST'

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(Other definitions for forecast that I've seen before include "Prediction, about the weather perhaps" , "Predict (event)" , "Divine" , "Meteorological surmise perhaps" , "Prophesy" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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