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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skins

Sports; Golf

A competition between two to five players where each hole is competed for individually. A wager (called a "skin") is made on each hole. The skin is awarded to the player who wins the hole outright. ...

bite

Sports; Golf

What a golfer yells at their ball when they want it to stop quickly on the green (and not roll off the back edge). Bite actually refers to a braking effect caused by underspin induced by a ...

body english

Sports; Golf

Signals given by a golfer's posture immediately after making contact with the ball that tell the educated observer what the golfer thought of his/her swing. Also refers to the gyrations some ...

chunk

Sports; Golf

To "chunk" a shot means that the clubhead struck the ground well before it made contact with the ball. The clubhead slowed considerably before it reached the ball and the ball was propelled far less ...

concede

Sports; Golf

In match play, to concede a hole means that one player recognizes the hopelessness of competing further (on this hole) and picks up the ball without holing out. Of course, this awards the hole to the ...

dialed in

Sports; Golf

Television commentators are known to use this phrase to describe a player whose every shot seems to have a near perfect result. It's a machinery analog, indicating that this golfer is performing like ...

danga

Sports; Golf

An east-Asian hardwood briefly used to make shafts. Walter Hagen endorsed dangawood clubs citing a lower trajectory (compared to hickory-shafted clubs) useful in Texas where wind was an issue. The ...