Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Cow pasture pool - One of the less endearing names for the game of golf. Senior PGA Tour pro Robert Landers has given some legitimacy to the term by practising his game alongside the "meadow muffins" on his dairy farm. Cow pasture is also used to describe poorly maintained golf courses.

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Golf Dictionary ( Dec 22 - 27 )

Crapola - The rules.

Cup - The metal or plastic cylinder fitted into the hole in the green. Strictly speaking, it is only the liner of the hole, but in regular golf usage players will often say "cup" when they mean "hole," just as they frequently will say "just in bounds" when they mean "out of bounds," "Oh, here it is" when they mean "I can't find it" and "five" when they mean "seven."

Cuppy - A lie that's buried in a hole or depression.

Cut - A controlled shot that moves from left to right. Most golfers shout "Cut!" to their ball after they see it heading well to the left of their target, not realising that this is not an "on-demand" feature of a golf ball.

Dance floor - The green. Perhaps the term comes from the smooth surface and relative flatness of the green, or maybe it is meant to convey the joy that accompanies finally making it there. One of the most famous dances performed on the green is the "sabre dance" done by Chi Chi Rodriguez to celebrate a birdie.

Dawn patrol - The golfers who are the first to play each day, so named because they start their march around the course at sunrise.

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Dead - When your ball is in a position from which you have no chance of getting it onto the green with your next shot. These positions include squirrels' nests and car windshields.

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Deuce - A score of two for any hole. Too many of these on your scorecard means you're probably only counting your tee shots.

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Delay - Golfers are expected to play "without undue delay." The question of exactly what constitutes undue delay has been under intensive study since 1971.

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Dew sweepers - Golfers who habitually play first in the morning; members of the dawn patrol.

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Die it in the hole - The action of putting the ball so that it falls into the cup as it is dying, or losing the last of its momentum. Such strokes run the risk of becoming Central America putts, left on the amateur side of the hole.

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Digger - A golfer who takes a big divot with his iron shots. A digger's swing takes a very steep approach to the ball. The opposite is a picker, a golfer who sweeps the ball off the ground with a flatter swing path.

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Dimples - Tiny circular hollows impressed onto the outer covering of golf balls to regulate their lift. The surface is also usually punctuated with at least one large cut, or "smile," caused by a shanked iron shot. Curiously, golfers who complete these "faces" by adding eyes, ears, hair and a nose to roughly resemble whoever taught them golf find that they can hit their works of art nearly twice the distance of an undecorated ball.

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Divot - Colourful Scottish word for the piece of turf scooped from the ground in front of the ball in the course of an iron shot. In Scotland, depending on its size, a divot is referred to as a "wee tuftie" (2 " x 4 "), "peg o' sward" (4 " x 6 "), "snatch of haugh" (6" x 8"), "fine tussock" (8" x 10"), "glen" (1' x 2'), "firth" (11/z' x 3'), "loch" (2' x 4') and "damned English divot" (anything larger than 8 square feet).