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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flop shot

Sports; Golf

When chipping or pitching in golf, this shot will result in more loft and less roll after the ball hits the green. With exaggerated loft, this shot is meant to traverse an intervening hazard, such as ...

skull

Sports; Golf

Refers to hitting an iron shot such that the blade didn't quite get under the ball as it should have. The lower edge of the club struck the ball waist-high, causing a line drive trajectory with ...

reachable

Sports; Golf

Generally used as "reachable in (number of strokes)" . This is commentator talk for describing the length of a hole for a particular player. A 580-yard par 5 may be described as "reachable in two" ...

fat

Sports; Golf

A golf shot in which the golf club takes too much grass under the ball causing the golf shot to be well short of the green. A fat shot is often caused by the golfer taking their eye of the golf ...

rub of the green

Sports; Golf

When random events conspire to do a particular shot in and the rules prohibit your taking relief. It's unlucky and considered just "the rub of the green". Nothing you can really do.

play through

Sports; Golf

If your foursome cannot keep up with the group ahead of you, and the group behind you is consistently waiting for you, golf etiquette and the USGA Rule Book call for your foursome to step aside at ...

Q school

Sports; Golf

Short for "Qualifying School", a term used to indicate the preliminary competition an aspiring player must survive in order to qualify for The PGA Tour. In the final stage of "The PGA Tour ...