Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Slick - Term used to describe fast greens.

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Golf Dictionary

Slider - A putt that breaks slightly and subtly in either direction. Also a low, hard left-to-right shot. Fred Couples hits lots of sliders off the tee.

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Golf Dictionary

Smile - Balls that are skulled or otherwise mishit often wind up with a cut on their surface that resembles a smile, though you won't be smiling as you reach into your bag for another ball.

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Golf Dictionary

Smoked - Term for a ball that is hit hard and far.

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Smother - To hit the ball with too closed a club face. You might try opening it back up and hitting more on the upper part of the ball.

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Golf Dictionary

Smother hook - A hook that flies left and low to the ground, though only for a short distance; it is struck with a severely closed club face.

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Golf Dictionary

Snake - A long putt that breaks in more than one direction. One of the most famous snakes ever holed was a sixty-footer by Ben Crenshaw on the tenth hole at Augusta National Golf Club during the 1984 Masters Tournament.

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Snap hook - See duck hook and rope hook.

Sniper - See duck hook, rope hook, and snap hook, all names for the same crummy shot.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Snowman - A score of eight for a hole, so named because the digit resembles a snowman. Also called lots of unprintable names. (See also Frosty.,)

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Spin - Professional golfers and other accomplished players can apply a variety of spins to the ball to make it curve around obstacles, turn into the wind or stop dead where it lands. These shots take skill and practice, but most beginners have a bag of tricks, too! For example, even the rankest of amateurs can amaze their playing companions and themselves by making a ball run right across the centre of the hole without going in, rise straight up into the air, execute unbelievably sharp left or right turns, travel sideways or even backwards, or disappear entirely.