The game board in Golf Solitaire is made up of:
Seven columns: There are seven columns with 5 upwards facing cards each.
The Stock: The facedown pile on the bottom left. It is used to draw cards from and put on the Waste.
The Waste: The faceup pile next to the Stock. It's empty in the beginning.
The objective is to move all cards from the columns onto the waste. You can only move the topmost card in each column at a time. You can move a card onto the Waste if it ranks one higher, or one lower than the topmost card on the waste. E.g. if there's a 6 on the Waste you can move a 5 or a 7 there. Initially the Waste is empty and you can move any card there.
If you have no cards in the columns that can be moved to the Waste then you can get a card from the Stock and turn it over to the Waste. Be aware though that you can only go one time through the Stock, there are no resets allowed.