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You can use this with caddies by asking: “How much is the carry over the water?” or when lying to someone “I carried my 8 iron 240 yards!”Ĭart: A car-like buggy you sit on and drive around the golf course. Avoid: sand trap – no one calls it that.Ĭaddy/Caddie: People you can pay at a golf club to carry your bag of clubs and give you advice on distances, clubs to hit, best options, break on the greens.Ĭarry: The distance the ball flies before hitting the ground. One of the least favorite places to be for some people but with modern clubs, it’s easy to beginners to escape! Alternative: sand, the beach. You’re not allowed to ground your club in green-side and fairway bunkers but in waste bunkers, grounding your club is allowed.
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They can be green-side bunkers, fairway bunkers or waste bunkers. It can be performed from the fairway or green-side.īunker: An hollow filled with sand. It takes a lot of practice to master reading greens.īump and run: A pitch or chip shot that is played lower with the aim to bump the ball into the air and let it run or roll for most of the journey to the hole. Main reasons for the ball deviating on the greens are slopes on the green and grain of the grass. This stops a sand wedge digging into sand or getting tangled in the long grassīreak or borrow: The movement of a golf ball on the green away from a straight line. Usually equates to an 18 handicap.īounce: The angle measured from the front edge of a club’s sole to the point that rests on the ground when addressing the ball. “He blocked it way right”īogey: A score one more than par on a hole.īogey golf: Playing to one over par on every hole. “I bladed it right over the green!” Alternative: thinned it, skulled it, hit it in the teethīlind shot: A type of shot where you can’t see the landing area from the tee or you can’t see the green from where you’re approaching from.īlock: A golf shot that goes very far right without much shape, just goes directly right off the club face. To blade: To hit a golf ball off the leading edge producing a low ball flight without any control or spin. Opposite of a cavity back. Best to avoid these as a beginner because they’re very hard to hit. “Bite!” “get down” “sit down” “Stooooop”īlade: A kind of golf iron that has the weight in the back of the club behind the sweet spot evenly weighted from heel to toe. Opposite and complement to the follow-through or down-swing.īall-marker: Usually a coin or small plastic disk with a tiny spike to mark the position of the ball on the green so your ball doesn’t interfere with another players putt.īirdie: When you make a score one under the par of the hole.īite: Same as backspin. Can be used as an instruction to the ball. Alternatives: zip, rip, biteīack-swing: Initiation of the swing by take the club from behind the ball to behind your head. The opposite and complement to the front nine.īackspin: When you hit a ball, the grooves create a spin on the ball that rotates backward and is responsible for stopping the ball on the green or fairway and often can roll backwards.
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“You’re away” is a way to use this term usually when no one is hitting but should be.īack nine: Holes 10-18 on an 18 hole course.
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Alternative: FringeĪttend to pin: Hold the flag/pin/flag-stick while the other player putts and remove it as the ball leaves the putter face.Īway: The golfer who is next to play. Usually fro the fairway, fairway bunkers or rough after your drive.Īpron: The usually less than a yard wide grass around the edge of the green, separating the fairway and the green surface. Both golfers won the same number of holes.Īpproach shot: A shot you hit (not off the tee) that lands on the green. Alternative: Double eagleĪlignment: The relationship of the feet, shoulders and club face to the target.Īll square: A tie in matchplay. This would be a hole in one on a par 4 or a 2 on a par 5. Alternative: Hole-in-oneĪddress: To stand ready to hit a shot with the clubhead behind the ball.Īim: The direction you are trying to hit the ball.Īlbatross: When you hit the ball into the hole in 3 shots under par. AĪce: Hit the ball into the hole in one shot from the tee.
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