Sports

Sports

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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spin rate

Sports; Golf

Ball rotations per minute off the clubface. Example: Supposedly the spin rate goes down about 4% per second.

past parallel

Sports; Golf

Beyond the point where the club's shaft is horizontal, or parallel with the ground, at the top of the backswing. Example: As a rule, going past parallel will produce less ...

lunch ball

Sports; Golf

Taking a second attempt (replay, "do over") at a shot when one doesn't like the result of the first. Example: Taking a Sunday ball/lunch ball/Mulligan is not allowed in the rules ...

Mulligan

Sports; Golf

Taking a second attempt (replay, "do over") at a shot when one doesn't like the result of the first attempt. Example: Taking a Mulligan/breakfast ball/lunch ball/Sunday ball is ...

Sunday ball

Sports; Golf

Taking a second attempt (replay, "do over") at a shot when one doesn't like the result of the first. Example: Taking a lunch ball/Mulligan/Sunday ball is not allowed in the rules ...

kitty litter

Sports; Golf

Another term for a sand-filled bunker. Example: Jennifer was usually very good from the kitty litter.

peg

Sports; Golf

Another term for a tee - a small (usually, but not always, wooden) device for setting the ball up above the ground. Example: The teeing area was so hard he had difficulty getting ...