Golf generally is a complicated sport – not simply the enjoying of it however its language and terminology. We hope this glossary helps.
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Ace: See Hole-in-one.
Deal with: Not the place you reside however the act of taking a stance and inserting the clubhead behind the ball. In case you then trigger the ball to maneuver, even by chance, it’s a one-stroke penalty.
Air shot: An tried stroke during which the participant misses the ball.
Alignment: One of the uncared for areas of the sport; the place of a participant’s physique relative to the goal line of the ball. In case you’re not aligned correctly, you might have little likelihood of sending the ball the place you plan.
Albatross: Three-under par for a gap, which is way rarer than an ace as a result of it requires two good pictures, reasonably than one. The Individuals, confusingly, name this a double eagle but when an eagle is two-under, wouldn’t a double eagle be four-under?
All-square: When opposing gamers (or groups) have an equal variety of factors or holes of their favour, so the match is tied till one or different wins a gap.
Method shot: Any shot you plan (or hope) to achieve the inexperienced.
Apron: Shut-mown grass across the inexperienced.
Artisan: A category of membership of a golf membership with restricted rights at a low value which traditionally supplied diminished membership to the working lessons.
Attend: (the flagstick): When a golfer or caddy holds and removes the flagstick for an additional participant. Way more not often seen for the reason that rule change that enables the flagstick to be left within the gap.
Away: The golfer whose ball is furthest from the inexperienced, and who due to this fact performs first.
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Again 9: The second half of an 18-hole course – by no means to be known as the ‘again aspect’.
Backspin: The legendary results of a well-struck method shot, inflicting the ball to suck again on the placing floor (typically even off the inexperienced). Solely skilled by good golfers.
Backswing: The a part of the swing from handle to the highest of the swing.
Balata: A tender, simply broken materials overlaying golf balls that was a well-liked selection for golfers (ie, the great ones) who’re capable of generate spin.
Ball: An important piece of golf gear because the goal of the sport is to get it into the outlet in as few strokes as doable.
Ball marker: A coin or related object to mark the place of a ball on the inexperienced.
Ball retriever: Telescopic machine to retrieve a ball from water hazards (penalty areas), the limbs of timber, the sector adjoining the course and different awkward locations.
Ball washer: Because it sounds. In case you are at a membership posh sufficient to have them, they are often discovered on or close to the teeing floor.
Banana ball: A extreme hook or (extra often) slice, during which the ball describes a sickeningly vicious trajectory, taking it effectively extensive of the golf green.
Bandit: Derogatory time period for golfers who preserve an artificially excessive handicap, in order that they clear up the prizes in competitors.
Baseball Grip: A manner of holding the membership so that every one 10 fingers are on the grip, with no over-lapping or interlocking. Often known as the 10-finger grip.
Stomach putter: A membership longer than a standard putter, during which the butt of the membership rests on the golfer’s stomach, usually over 40 inches lengthy (the membership that’s, not the stomach). NB: It’s now not inside the guidelines to anchor any a part of the membership to the physique.
Finest ball: A crew competitors during which the very best rating by any crew member on a gap, counts because the crew rating for that gap. Some competitions specify that every golfer in a crew has to supply the crew rating for a given variety of holes.
Bifurcation: Having totally different guidelines for aggressive and leisure play, to this point strongly resisted by the sport’s rule makers (the R&A and USGA).
BIGGA: British and Worldwide Golf Greenkeepers Affiliation.
Birdie: A rating of one-under par for a gap.
Bisque: A casual match not performed below the foundations of golf. If an 18-handicap golfer is enjoying a nine-handicapper, she or he receives a stroke on the 9 most tough holes, based on the stroke index on the scorecard. With bisque, they’ll take these strokes wherever they like. As a result of every match is negotiated earlier than it begins, an settlement is reached on the variety of strokes that may be taken on any given gap, and whether or not they need to be nominated earlier than the spherical, earlier than, throughout or after a gap and so forth. It may be loads of enjoyable and there aren’t but any recorded homicides because of this.
Blade: Iron golf equipment and not using a cavity again or peripherally-weighted head. Don’t attempt utilizing them until your handicap is in single figures. May also discuss with putters.
Block: Or ‘push.’ A shot that, for right-handed golfers, sends the ball proper in a fairly straight line, in contrast to a slice the place it tends to begin straight earlier than veering proper.
Bogey: A rating of one-over par for a gap. This then goes up sequentially, for double-bogey, triple-bogey and so forth.
Bounce: The angle of the underside floor of the membership in relation to the bottom. A excessive bounce in a wedge is helpful for tender surfaces like sand, whereas low bounce angles are good for tighter lies.
Bounce again: To recuperate from a nasty gap by making birdie or higher on the subsequent.
Bounce sport: A pleasant match reasonably than official competitors during which the opponents determine the foundations for themselves. For instance, they might agree that if a ball is misplaced, they gained’t impose a stroke-and-distance penalty however enable the golfer to drop as close to as doable to the place their ball is likely to be, below a penalty of 1 or two strokes. In essence, you play to no matter system is agreeable to you all; an informal sport between buddies.
Break: Or ‘Borrow.’ The quantity of slope,or incline on the inexperienced between your ball and the outlet.
Broomhandle putter: See ‘Stomach putter’.
Bump and run: A low trajectory shot from off the inexperienced, designed to get the ball onto the placing floor and rolling as shortly as doable.
Bunker: A melancholy or hole within the floor with a overlaying of sand. And if you wish to be pedantic, don’t discuss with depressions with out sand as a ‘grass bunker’ no such factor exists. Individuals name bunkers ‘sand traps’, however what do they know?
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Caddy: Both a low-paid artisan who carries your golf equipment and offers recommendation on the place to hit the ball or the slope of greens, or a particularly well-paid worker of a Tour golfer (if she or he is on the proper bag).
Carry: The space a ball travels within the air.
Informal water: Any momentary standing water or puddles seen after a participant takes their stance. Snow and ice might be informal water, however ice cubes from a discarded drink can’t (as they’ve undergone a producing course of and due to this fact not thought of ‘pure’).
Cavity again: Irons or putters during which steel is faraway from the again of the clubhead to distribute its weight in direction of the outer edges. It will increase forgiveness with off-centre hits. See additionally: ‘Peripheral weighting’.
Chip shot: As a bump and run.
Claret jug: Trophy awarded to the winner of The Open Championship.
Compression: The measurement of a ball’s hardness. Low compression balls (30 upwards) are tender, whereas extraordinarily arduous balls may have a scale as much as 200.
Countback: If a match ends in a tie, it is likely to be selected countback, for instance, the individual with the very best again 9 rating wins. Or it might be the very best rating from the final three, or final six holes. If this technique is for use, the small print must be clear earlier than the competitors begins.
Cup: See ‘gap’.
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Divot: The piece of grass that’s faraway from the turf when the ball is struck. In case you’re adequate to take divots, be equally adequate to switch them.
DP World Tour: Previously the European Tour, the premier collection of tournaments (it doesn’t matter what LIV Golf could say) outwith the USA for male professionals.
Dogleg: A gap that curves both to the left or proper, resembling the form of a canine limb.
Dormie: Or ‘Dormy’. A state of affairs during which one participant or crew in a match is to this point forward that they’ll’t be overwhelmed, solely tied (until it’s agreed to play further holes). Being 4 holes forward, with solely 4 to play, could be dormie.
Downswing: The a part of the swing from the highest, or furthest away from the ball, till affect.
Draw: For a right-handed golfer, a shot that strikes, below management, from right-to-left. In extra it turns into a hook.
Driver: The longest membership within the bag, barring broomhandle putters, and due to this fact the one with which you anticipate to hit the ball furthest.
Duck hook: A extreme low hook the place the ball achieves little peak.
DQ: Disqualified from a contest, both by withdrawing with out enough clarification or breaking one of many match guidelines (corresponding to incorrectly finishing a scorecard).
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Eagle: A rating of two-under par on a gap.
Etiquette: A code of behaviour and manners to which all golfers are anticipated to stick. It consists of changing divots, raking bunkers and repairing pitch marks on the inexperienced but additionally applies to normal requirements of courtesy and acceptable behaviour.
European Tour: See ‘DP World Tour’.
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Fairway: An space of close-mown grass between tee and inexperienced.
Fats shot: Or ‘chunk’.The place the clubhead hits the turf behind the ball, dissipating power and leading to a lack of distance and never a couple of oaths.
Flagstick: A pennant atop a steel pole to indicate the placement of the outlet. Typically referred to as the Pin.
Flier: A shot during which grass or moisture is trapped between clubface and ball, so the clubface grooves, which impart spin, are rendered ineffective. Normally ends in the ball going additional than anticipated.
Flop shot: A shot during which the ball flies very excessive, however not far, executed with a lofted membership, held ‘open’ at handle. Phil Mickelson is an knowledgeable exponent.
Comply with-through: The ultimate a part of the golf swing, after the ball has been struck.
Foozle: Archaic time period to explain a fluffed or incompetent shot.
Fore: A warning shout to alert others that your ball could also be travelling of their course. It’s thought of a critical breach of etiquette to not difficulty such a warning.
Fourball: Two pairs of golfers compete towards one another and every play their very own golf ball. Additionally typically refers back to the variety of gamers in a bunch.
Foursomes: Two pairs of golfers compete towards one another however every pair, or crew, play with one ball, hitting pictures alternately. Nonetheless, if participant A from crew A hits the tee shot on the opening gap, his or her associate will tee off on the second (even when they hit the final shot on the earlier gap) and they’ll alternate tee pictures all through the match.
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Gimme: A putt so quick that it’s anticipated to be conceded in match play, on the premise that it’s unlikely to be missed. As soon as supplied, a gimme can’t be retracted.
Golden ferret: Holing out from a greenside bunker.
Grand slam: Holding all 4 of golf’s main tournaments for males on the identical time, as Tiger Woods did in 2000-2001. To win them in the identical yr is a calendar slam.
Inexperienced: The place the outlet is situated and the grass is mown to its shortest.
Inexperienced charge: The price of a spherical of golf should you play as a customer.
Inexperienced in regulation: Getting the ball to the placing floor in two strokes below par – in a single shot on a par three gap, two pictures on a par 4 and three on a par 5. Some golfers even handle to do it persistently.
Inexperienced Jacket: Piece of clothes awarded annually to the winner of The Masters. It’s not presupposed to be worn exterior the grounds of Augusta Nationwide.
Greensomes: A variation of foursomes, during which either side has two gamers. Each gamers hit tee pictures after which determine which ball they wish to play for the rest of the outlet. They then hit alternate pictures till the ball is holed out.
Gross rating: The whole variety of strokes taken in a spherical.
Groove: A scored line or indentation on the clubface to assist impart spin.
Grounding the membership: Setting the clubhead on the bottom behind the ball in preparation for making a stroke. Not allowed in bunkers or a marked penalty space.
Floor below restore: Part of the course from which play isn’t allowed, often due to poor underfoot situations and mostly designated by white strains on the grass.
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Hacker: Untalented golfer, or one displaying poor etiquette.
Handicap: A numerical ranking denoting a golfer’s potential. An 18-handicap golfer, for instance, could be anticipated to play a par-72 course in 90 strokes (72+18) It permits golfers of various skills to play on equal phrases.
Hazard: Previously utilized to bunkers or water hazards, we should now study to name the latter ‘Penalty areas’.
Heel: The a part of the golf clubhead nearest the shaft.
Gap: A round cavity within the inexperienced, marked by a flagstick, into which you goal to place your ball in as few strokes as doable.
Gap-in-one:
The holy grail of the sport because it entails holing out from the tee. Normally achieved on par three holes though some golfers (those you most likely gained’t like an excessive amount of) also can do it on par fours.
Holing out: Finishing a gap by seeing your ball discover the underside of the cup.
Hook: A shot that, for a right-handed golfer, curves sharply to the left.
Hosel: The a part of the clubhead connected to the shaft.
Hybrid: More and more well-liked kind of golf membership which, in essence, have the clubhead qualities of a wooden, on the shaft of an iron. Often known as ‘Utility’ golf equipment.
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Interlocking grip: A manner of holding the membership during which the little finger of the highest hand, interlocks between the index and third fingers of the underside hand. Usually most popular by golfers, corresponding to Jack Nicklaus, with quick fingers.
Iron: A membership with a flat steel face. Irons are numbered based on the diploma of loft on the clubface – the decrease the quantity, the much less loft
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Jab: Quick, stabby stroke, often with a putter.
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Knock-down: Low-flying, punched shot, often to maintain the ball below the wind and achieved with a shortened follow-through.
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Lag: Putt from distance, meant to get close to to the cup with out essentially holing in (and when it does fall in, that’s a bonus).
Lay up: A shot designed to not attain the inexperienced; in order to stay wanting a penalty space or bunker, for instance, wanting the placing floor.
LET: Women European Tour, which phases girls skilled’s golf occasions on the continent and past.
Lie: 1). The place of the ball on the bottom, which can decide the subsequent stroke.
2). The angle at which the clubhead sits in relation to the bottom. The angle between the centre of the shaft and the only of the clubhead.
Hyperlinks: A golf course by the coast, located on a chunk of land linking land to sea. Characterised by grass mounds, hollows and dunes. Usually well-bunkered.
LIV Golf: A collection of match funded by Saudi Arabia and spearheaded by Greg Norman, that pays huge quantities of cash to lure skilled golfers away from present Excursions.
Lob: Excessive, arcing shot.
Loft: The angle of the clubface in relation to the shaft. Extra loft equals larger peak however much less distance.
Free obstacle: Outlined as: ‘Any unattached pure object’ and examples would come with stones, free branches or twigs and lifeless animals. A free obstacle can’t be connected or rising and you could take away them so long as you don’t transfer your ball within the course of.
LPGA: Women Skilled Golf Affiliation, liable for the LPGA Tour, which hosts the premier {golfing} occasions for ladies professionals.
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Majors: The 4 pre-eminent males’s golf tournaments – the Masters, US Open, US PGA Championship, and The Open (by no means the ‘British’ Open).
Masters: Historically the primary main of the yr, often performed within the second week of April and uniquely of majors, all the time performed on the identical golf course – Augusta Nationwide in Georgia.
Match play: A format during which a person or crew compete towards one other on a hole-by-hole foundation. Whoever information the bottom rating, wins the outlet, and the match continues till one aspect can now not win. For instance, if a crew or particular person is three holes forward, with solely two holes left to play, they’ve gained 3&2.
Medalist: The chief in Medal-play qualifying rounds earlier than a match play stage of a contest. To whittle down a big area, a number of medal rounds could also be performed earlier than the match play phases.
Medal play: Various identify for stroke play.
Member’s bounce: A lucky bounce or ricochet, that leaves the ball in a extra beneficial place than would in any other case be the case. Uncommon in your individual sport; frequent for these with whom you play.
Steel wooden: See ‘Wooden’.
Mulligan: An unlawful, dishonest and nefarious replay of a shot with out making use of a penalty for the unique effort. Widespread within the USA, regarded with disdain in civilised international locations. An American as soon as requested a British caddy what they referred to as a mulligan within the UK and was advised: ‘Three off the tee.’
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Names of golf equipment: Previously golf golf equipment had been named, not numbered and, though there have been some variations, an approximate checklist and their fashionable equivalents could be:
Brassie 2-wood
Spoon 3 or 4-wood
Baffing spoon Fairway wooden
Cleek (driving iron) 1 or 2-iron
Midmashie 3-iron
Mashie iron 4-iron
Mashie 5-iron
Spade mashie 6-iron
Mashie-niblick 7-iron
Pitching niblick 8-iron
Niblick 9-iron
Rake
Rutting iron
Monitoring iron.
Nassau: A type of playing involving three separate bets, one for the entrance 9, one for the again and a 3rd for the general match.
Nearest the pin: Competitors inside a contest the place a prize is awarded to the golfer who will get their ball closest to the cup on a delegated gap or holes.
Nett rating: The strokes taken in a spherical, minus the golfer’s handicap. If an 18-handicap participant scores 90, his nett rating can be 72 (90 minus 18).
No return: A participant doesn’t hand in a scorecard on the finish of a contest, or information no rating on a number of holes and is due to this fact excluded from the competitors.
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Out-of-bounds: All areas exterior the boundary edges of the course. In case your ball finally ends up there, you face a stroke and distance penalty.
Exterior company: Any agent not a part of the match or, in stroke play, not a part of the competitor’s aspect. Referees, markers, observers, and fore-caddies are exterior brokers. Wind and water are usually not exterior brokers.
Overlapping grip: Often known as the Vardon grip. A manner of holding the membership during which the little finger of the highest hand, overlaps the index finger of the underside hand.
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Par: The rating an knowledgeable (scratch) golfer could be anticipated to make for a given gap or course. Holes can have a par ranking of three, 4 or 5 (in distinctive circumstances, six). A classically typical course could be rated par 72 and consist of 4 par three holes, 4 par fives and 10 par fours.
Peripheral weighting: see ‘Cavity again’.
PGA: Skilled Golfers’ Affiliation, the consultant physique of golf membership professionals.
PGA Tour: The world’s premier Tour for male golfers.
Pin: The flagstick.
Pin excessive: An method shot that travels the proper distance to the flagstick, however is extensive of it.
Pitch mark: An indentation left within the inexperienced when struck by a falling ball. In case you haven’t made one, or can’t see it, restore at the least two others.
Pitch shot: A lofted method shot to a inexperienced. If in case you have issue distinguishing between a chip and a pitch, do not forget that you pitch as much as the course and the chips go down.
Plugged: Refers to a ball that’s wholly or partially embedded within the floor or sand.
Apply swing: Rehearsing the stroke about to be made. In case you’re engaged on a particular facet of your swing, one follow swing is allowable – two, three or extra are, or must be, verboten.
Most well-liked lie: Native rule that enables for uncommon, typically waterlogged, underfoot situations. The ball on the golf green could also be lifted, cleaned and positioned withing six inches (the depth of the typical scorecard), with out penalty.
Pre-shot routine: The mixture of waggles, knee bends, seems to be up the golf green, sniffs, coughs and belches by which many golfers settle themselves earlier than hitting a shot.
Press: If a match finishes early – for instance, one aspect wins 5&4, the opponents could conform to play a separate match over the remaining holes. It’s a great way to recoup your losses from the principle match, or lose twice the quantity.
Skilled: Exalted deity whose potential is such that golf turns into their career, both by way of enjoying match golf or servicing the educating and gear wants of membership golfers.
Putter: Or ‘flat stick’ to be used on the inexperienced.
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R&A: Governing physique of golf all through the world, apart from the USA and Mexico. It phases quite a few tournaments for novice {and professional} golfers, together with The Open Championship, golf’s oldest main.
Royal and Historical Golf Membership of St Andrews: Personal members membership in Scotland that was the governing physique till it formally separated from the R&A in 2004.
Vary finder: Battery powered machine to offer the golfer precise yardages on the course, often to the inexperienced. Hundreds of thousands of kilos’ price of satellites are orbiting the globe to let you know that you’ve got 160-yards to go, and are deluded sufficient to assume you will get there with a 7-iron. Makes you assume.
Prepared golf: Enjoying when prepared, reasonably than strictly adhering to the conference that whoever is furthest from the inexperienced performs first. It accelerates the sport and is to be beneficial so long as enjoying out of flip doesn’t pose a danger to anybody.
Tough: An space acquainted to most golfers as a result of it lies exterior the golf green. It options longer grass, bushes, and weeds, together with empty tin cans, bottles and meals wrappers.
Rub of the inexperienced: The happenstance of golf, which suggests taking the tough with the graceful. A ball could also be headed out of bounds, hit a tree and end within the fairway, or be aiming straight for the inexperienced, bounce on a sprinkler head and end in a bunker. Within the latter case you’re anticipated to smile and say: ‘Oh expensive, by no means thoughts.’
Ryder Cup: Biennial golf match, now performed in odd-numbered years, between groups representing the USA and Europe.
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Sand wedge: Specialised membership with loads of bounce to assist swing by way of the sand and watch the ball float gently onto the inexperienced earlier than stopping inside inches of the outlet. In principle. Will also be used elsewhere on the course.
Sandy: Making par after visiting a bunker.
Scratch golfer: Somebody who can play to par, that’s, they’ve a zero handicap. Not often seen.
Senior: Golfers over the age of fifty; revered for his or her expertise, erudition and savoir faire.
Shank: A hideous affliction during which the ball is struck by the hosel and never the clubface, inflicting it to dive at an acute sideways angle.
Skins sport: A type of play during which every gap has a set worth (of cash or factors). For instance, gamers could decide that the entrance 9 holes are price £1 every, and the again 9 £2. The cash or factors are usually not collected till somebody wins a gap outright. So, if the primary three holes are halved, whoever wins the fourth, will get £4.
Slice: A shot that, for a right-handed golfer, curves sharply to the proper.
Snowman: A rating of eight on a gap, so-called due to the form of a determine 8.
Stableford factors: A system the place you exchange the variety of strokes you might have taken to factors. It permits golfers of all handicaps to compete on degree phrases (though decrease handicap golfers often moan that the system advantages these with the next handicap – they’re unsuitable).
In case you play to your handicap, you must common two factors a gap. For instance, you might have a handicap of 18 and also you’re enjoying a nine-handicap golfer. The primary gap is a par 4 and the stroke index is 10, so that you get a stroke allowance right here and your opponent doesn’t. You’re taking 5 strokes, which is a nett 4 for 2 factors. Your opponent makes a 4, so additionally will get two factors. Beneath the Stableford system, a nett bogey is one level, nett birdie is three factors and so forth.
Stimpmeter: Gadget for calculating the velocity of greens. Basically, it consists of a steel slide, at a set angle. A ball is rolled down and the space it then rolls on the inexperienced is measured in toes, to offer a stimpmeter studying of, for instance, 12.
Stroke and distance: Penalty utilized in case your ball is misplaced or out of bounds. You could replay your final stroke, including a penalty stroke to your rating. If the ball is misplaced or OB from the teeing floor, it’s also known as ‘three off the tee.’
Stroke index: A system by which every gap on a course is given a ranking as to its issue. Stroke index 1 could be essentially the most tough gap, and stroke index 18 the simplest. If golfers of various handicaps are in competitors, it permits them to know when strokes must be allotted to the upper handicapper.
Stroke play: Opponents document the variety of strokes they tackle every gap, after which the overall for the spherical or rounds. Whoever has the bottom complete, wins. That is the commonest type of the sport seen on skilled golf excursions all over the world.
Candy spot: Elusive a part of the centre of the clubface the place optimum ball-striking is rumoured to happen.
Swing: The technique of shifting the golf membership in an arc and returning it to the ball.
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Tee: formed peg of wooden or plastic on which you will place the ball to hit your opening shot on a gap.
Teeing floor: An space of close-mown grass, with tee markers to indicate the place the outlet begins.
Texas Scramble: Crew-play during which every golfer within the crew (invariably a most of 4 folks) hits their tee shotand the crew decides which one it likes finest. They mark that ball, the one who performed it from the tee hits their second shot and the remainder of the crew additionally play from that time, determine which end result they like the very best and so forth.
Some golf equipment additionally introduce necessities corresponding to: every golfer within the crew should have a sure variety of their tee pictures included, which brings in a component of techniques – you don’t wish to get to the previous few holes to grasp that essentially the most wayward driver in your group nonetheless has to have three counting tee pictures..
Via the inexperienced: All of a golf course besides tees, greens and hazards.
Unplayable: When your ball is in such a horrible place that you just can’t hit it otherwise you determine it will be advantageous to take a drop. A participant could declare a ball unplayable at any time and drop below a one-stroke penalty. This drop must be inside two club-lengths, or farther from the outlet according to the outlet and the ball’s present place, or replay the earlier shot.
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Up and Down: Refers back to the variety of strokes taken from shut proximity to the inexperienced, till the ball is holed out.
USGA: United States Golf Affiliation. The governing physique of golf in America and Mexico, additionally liable for staging quite a few tournaments for skilled and novice golfers, together with the US Open.
US PGA: United States PGA Championship, certainly one of golf’s 4 main, staged by the Skilled Golfers’ Affiliation of America.
Utility membership: See ‘Hybrid.’
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Vardon grip: See ‘Overlapping grip.’
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Waggle: Pre-shot routine to take stress out of the arms and palms.
Wanamaker Trophy: Cup awarded to the winner of the US PGA Championship.
Wedge: A lofted membership designed to fly the ball excessive however with restricted distance, additionally known as the ‘scoring golf equipment’ as a result of they’re utilized in nearer proximity to the inexperienced and meant to supply larger accuracy.
Winter inexperienced: Short-term close-mown a part of the golf green to guard the complete greens in winter situations.
Winter guidelines: See ‘Most well-liked lies’.
Girls’s majors: We’ve got grouped them collectively as a result of there are 5 of them and so they have a tendency to vary. As of 2022, they’re: The US Girls’s Open; KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship; AIG Girls’s Open; The Chevron Championship and The Amundi Evian Championship.
Wooden: A big-headed golf membership with an extended shaft for larger distance from the tee or fairway. Initially the clubheads had been comprised of wooden – usually persimmon – however are actually comprised of varied composite metals. Regardless of this, they maintain the identify ‘wooden’ to differentiate them from irons. Alternatively, part of the golf course you don’t want to go to.
Woody: Making par after your ball has struck timber in some unspecified time in the future on the outlet.
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Yips: A brief, involuntary and twitchy stroke on the inexperienced that always propels the ball well past the outlet. As Henry Longhurst wrote: ‘When you’ve had ‘em, you’ve obtained ‘em.’
