Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Grinder - Term used for a golfer who is all business. A player whose only mission is to achieve the best score possible. A hard worker. A serious player. Boring. Tom Kite.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Grocery money - Winnings from a golf bet that the winner pledges to spend on food and drink, or groceries, usually at the nineteenth hole.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Grounder - A golf shot that never leaves the ground. (See also worm burner.}

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Golf Dictionary

Grow teeth - 1. golfer's plea for the ball to stop quickly. (See also bite, chew) 2. something Tiger Woods did after he broke fifty for nine holes.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Growl - Action, backspin, juice. When you want your ball to stop quickly, you have to put some growl on it.

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Golf Dictionary

Hacker - A terrible golfer. A person who hacks it around the golf course. (See also dub and duffer.)

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Golf Dictionary

Halve - In match play, to tie a hole. Thus, if player A and player B both have a 5 on the 14th hole, they have "halved" the hole. Incidentally, that phrase is pronounced "they have haved" because the "l" in "halve" is silent, a fascinating fact that player A may want to discuss with player B during the latter's backswing on the 15th tee.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Ham and egg it - For partners in a competition to take turns winning holes for their side. As with a brother-in-law act, two stiffs take turns getting lucky—at their opposition's expense.

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Golf Dictionary

Hand mashie - The five-fingered "club" attached to the end of a golfer's arm.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Handicap - An allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.