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.

Industry: Sports

Add a new term

Contributors in Golf

Become a Contributors

Golf

Skull

Sports; Golf

Refers to hitting an iron shot such that the blade didn't quite get under the ball as it should have. The lower edge of the club struck the ball waist-high, causing a line drive trajectory with ...

Play through

Sports; Golf

If your foursome cannot keep up with the group ahead of you, and the group behind you is consistently waiting for you, golf etiquette and the USGA Rule Book call for your foursome to step aside at ...

Rub of the green

Sports; Golf

When random events conspire to do a particular shot in and the rules prohibit your taking relief. It's unlucky and considered just "the rub of the green". Nothing you can really do.

Pitch-and-put

Sports; Golf

A game of golf played on a very small course.

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 recognises the hopelessness of competing further (on this hole) and picks up the ball without holing out. Of course, this awards the hole to the ...

Dialled 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 ...