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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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overlapping grip
Sports; Golf

The most common grip in use today, named after historic player Harry Vardon, where the baby finger of the lower hand overlaps and rests on the index finger, or between the index and middle fingers, ...

overlap
Sports; Golf

The most common grip in golf, placing the hands on the club such that the pinky finger of the bottom hand rests on the index finger of the top hand, or between the index and middle fingers of the top ...

Vardon grip
Sports; Golf

The most common grip in use today, named after historic player Harry Vardon, where the baby finger of the lower hand overlaps and rests on the index finger, or between the index and middle fingers, ...

overlap grip
Sports; Golf

The most common grip in use today, named after historic player Harry Vardon, where the baby finger of the lower hand overlaps and rests on the index finger, or between the index and middle fingers, ...

clubhead
Sports; Golf

The part of the club that is intended to make contact with the ball. Example: The head of the club had mud all over it.

fall line
Sports; Golf

The natural and most direct downhill course of a given slope, the path water would take, or that gravity would dictate, down a slope without obstacles. Example: In theory, a putt directly up or down ...

backdoor
Sports; Golf

The rearmost edge of the hole from the perspective of the player. Example: I thought I had missed the putt, but it fell in the backdoor.

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