Golf

Golf

Golf is a sport played with a club, usually made of wood, metal or carbon fiber, which is used to hit a small plastic ball from a tee into a hole. The game is primarily a precision and technique sport.

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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 in high grass.

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 loft.