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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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 on the ...

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: A lateral ...

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 Handicap was 14, but ...

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 wound shafts are more ...

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 or ...

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 bobbing is virtually ...

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 time. Example: A ...