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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Sports; Golf

An expression used when a shot is certainly out of play. Example: Reload; that ball is OB.

Sunday bag

Sports; Golf

An extremely lightweight golf bag, usually very small in diameter and easy to carry. Example: A half set of golf clubs and a Sunday bag makes walking the golf course a breeze.

milled face

Sports; Golf

An extremely smooth and flat but finely textured face (usually on a putter) created using a milling machine and made to very tight tolerances. Example: Cast, forged and milled face putters can all ...

skin game

Sports; Golf

A type of competition or wager format where only a uniquely low score can win a hole. Example: In skins/a skin game/a skins game to win a hole one must be the only one with the lowest score, and if ...

Ginty

Sports; Golf

A type of fairway wood, relatively popular in the 1970's, having a notably distended bulge in the center of the sole (like a rail or the keel of a boat) that's purpose was to lower the center of ...