You may be familiar with a draw, a faint, a leaflet or a line car, but if you spend enough time around the players, you will hear a completely different dictionary. One that includes everything, from “Hosel Rockets” to “Wedges Texas”. Some of these golf names are regional. Others have numerous changes depending on where you play. Yes, there are dozens more you can use in your group that may or may not be suitable for this list. Here are the names of the golf shoot that most players need to know.
Classic Golf Names Names
If you are talking about standard types of direction goal, here are the basics.
- Draw -The right -controlled left to the left (Rh Golf)
- dim -the shot controlled from the left to the right
- hook -A heavy shot for the right to the left
- slices -A heavy shot from left to right
- delay – Starts properly and stays properly
- retreat – Starts left and stands left
Golf shot the jargon names
Here are the names of the golf shoot you’ve probably heard, maybe with a few different turns. While there are fully separated lists for shot lies or the names we give some types of players, this adheres to the terms that specifically describe the Golf Shots themselves.
- Banana – Great, exaggerated slice
- Rocker – a hit hit by the club’s hosel (AKA SHANK)
- Chili – another slang term for an arm
- Worm – Low screaming that slips through the grass
- Stting – low, drilling (sometimes intentional)
- Rocket – low and very fast
- acrid – the shredded hit hit well after the ball
- Skull – Thin strike often passes through green on shorter shots
- Swollen – hit with the main edge of an iron
- Top – hit the top of the ball, making it rolled down poorly and barely
- scarf -A stroke that shoots the ball tightly (rh golf player)
- Stroke – a terrain to the ball
- hurly-burly – Great drawing or stroke, often used to form around a dogleg
- side –Classing Stinger style purpose
- Withdrawn – shot drawn, usually with short cuffs
- Wedge in Texas – Using a putter from off the Green
- hook – low and hard stroke strong
- STRAND – Wedge Shot with Backspin that Zips Backward
- Dead duck – shot to hit and stop immediately
- Air / Mature Post -the shot flying on the track of the target
- Smoked / tortured / cooked – jargon for a fried or crushed machine
- BOOKLET – Ball traveling farther than expected (from rough)
- Milling -A quick action, most often taken in the first (unofficial but ordinary) sneez
- Gimmoma – a short -accepted kick without care, usually within a few legs
- doubly – When you aim for a pallor or drawing and hitting the opposite
- breakfast —Express first
- Spray – classic bunker shot that lifts sand and ball together
- Cut – the deliberate hit that curves gently left right (Rh Golf)
- hook – a heavy, low kick that turns left and sinks
- Top Heaven / Pop-Up – Tee Shot hit up from the face that balloons and short lands
- DUFF / FLUB / Chunk – a greasy shot where the soil hit well before the ball
- Whiff / Air Shot – a total loss where the club does not make contacts at all
- Bump and run – Low short approach and rotates toward the hole
- Hook – high, soft shot that descends with little or no participation
- Punch – low, controlled shot used to keep the ball under the tree or smell
- Flown / pure – a shot perfectly with solid, concentrated contacts
- Ace -A hole in-one
Final thoughts
You may have a difficult time to work all these phrases in your next round, but the chances are you will hear or experience many of them over time. What did we miss? Which golf shoot names do you and your partners play on the course?
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