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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Worm burner

Sports; Golf

Low shot that hits the ground a few time but travels a decent distance. Sometimes a visually appealing shot if hit with a driver at an elevated tee box. If hit with an iron, it's usually ...

Grip it and rip it

Sports; Golf

Taking a club out and striking your ball hard. Preferably a golfer 'grips it and rips it' with a driver or 3-wood. Sometimes, however, when in the deep rough (grass), a golfer will 'grip it and rip ...

Danga

Sports; Golf

An east-Asian hardwood briefly used to make shafts. Walter Hagen endorsed dangawood clubs citing a lower trajectory (compared to hickory-shafted clubs) useful in Texas where wind was an issue. The ...

Reachable

Sports; Golf

Generally used as "reachable in (number of strokes)" . This is commentator talk for describing the length of a hole for a particular player. A 580-yard par 5 may be described as "reachable in two" ...

The Masters

Sports; Golf

The Masters is a major professional golf tournament held annually at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, USA. Taking place during the first full week of April, it is the first of four major ...