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Of or pertaining to any organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity or game requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means within a specified set of rules.

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lay-up

Sports; Golf

choosing to hit a golf shot shorter than you are capable of to better position the golf ball

lie

Sports; Golf

The place the ball has landed after it has been hit. A good lie would be a ball in the middle of the fairway sitting up on the grass. A bad lie would be in the rough with the ball ...

links

Sports; Golf

Links golf courses are located within 4 miles of the coast.

loose impediment

Sports; Golf

a small naturally-occurring object solidly embedded or stuck to the ball

mashie niblick

Sports; Golf

a golf term used for a 6/7 iron in the early 1900s

loft

Sports; Golf

The angle of the clubface. The greater the angle a clubface has the greater the loft. A 9-iron or pitching wedge has the most loft of all the golf clubs, a 1ñiron has very little ...

match play

Sports; Golf

A type of competition where each hole is won, lost or halved (tied). The winner is the player who wins the most holes.