Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Toe - The part of the club head farthest from the club shaft. If you hit a ball out there you toed it, or hit a toe job, and it will probably travel on a right-to-left flight path.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Top - To hit the ball well above its centerline, causing it to hop or trickle a few feet forward. Topping the ball is a problem that usually afflicts only beginning golfers, and it is quickly left behind once a player has learned to master the hook, the slice, the shank and the air ball.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Tossing balls - An easy way to decide who will be partners during a competitive match between four players. One golfer takes a ball from each player and then tosses them all into the air simultaneously. Whoever owns the two balls coming to rest closest to each other are partners, as are the two remaining players. This expression is not to be confused with the dastardly act of freeing oneself from a bunker using the hand mashie. That act is known as cheating.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Touch - A player with an aptitude for playing short, delicate shots around the green has a deft touch. He is a touch player. Touch shots don't require strength, but call for a certain feel for how the ball will react when struck and when it lands on the green. Seve Ballesteros was one example of a great touch player.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Tournament - An elaborate, time-consuming but basically fair method used by many country clubs to decide which individual members will be stuck for the next 12 months with the job of polishing, dusting and displaying their huge collection of ugly silver trophies.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Track - The golf course. When track is preceded by dog, it's time to look for a new place to play.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Tracking - Term that refers to a putt hit on a perfect line to the hole. Putts that are tracking don't always go into the hole, as sometimes the speed is wrong, but they are tracking toward the center of the cup when they run out of speed.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Trap - A geek's term for bunker. There are no such things as traps, only bunkers.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Triple Bogey - Three strokes more than par. Four strokes more than par is a quadruple bogey, 5 more is a quintuple, 6 is a sextuple, 7 is a throwuple, 8 is a blowuple, and 9 is an ohshutuple.

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Ha Ha I think that pretty much sums up my real life golf game! Thanks Stan for posting these - I really appreciate reading them!