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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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deflection board

Sports; Golf

A wall-mounted apparatus (board) for securing shafts at the grip end and flexing the shaft with a weight at its tip end so that its bend, or deflection, can be compared to a graph ...

lateral hazard

Sports; Golf

A water hazard (whether filled with water or not) which is generally adjacent to, or to one side or another of, the line of play (usually marked with red stakes or lines) Example: ...

Course Handicap

Sports; Golf

A whole number adjustment of a player's Handicap Index for a specific course (most golf courses have a chart to make this conversion) Example: On The Lamb course Stella's Course ...

filament wound

Sports; Golf

A method of manufacturing graphite shafts by winding one long strand, rather than a sheet, of the material around a form called a mandrel. Example: Some people say that filament ...

interlock grip

Sports; Golf

A method of placing the hands on the club such that the index finger of the top hand (nearest the butt end of the grip) and the pinky of the bottom hand hook together, intertwine ...

plumb bob

Sports; Golf

A method of reading putts where the putter is hung from the fingers (like a surveyor's plumb line) in front of one's visual field to create a vertical reference. Example: Plumb ...

shotgun

Sports; Golf

A method of starting a round of golf (usually, but not exclusively, a tournament) where a group starts on each hole at the sound of a shotgun, or simply at a specified ...