Golf Lingo

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GMaynard — Fri, 03 May 2019 19:41:01 GMT

When someone tops one "we say run Forrest run"

SEMPER FI

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Rob S — Fri, 03 May 2019 18:45:22 GMT

Maloik = jinx, as in "I never 3-putt" then...
3-Jam = 3-putt

RS

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FRED B — Fri, 03 May 2019 14:51:41 GMT

The guys I play with have a saying when you hit it into the woods. They say come on Louie. Meaning hoping the trees bat it back out into the fairway.

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Dennis M — Fri, 03 May 2019 14:05:09 GMT

I mentioned this thread to a friend and he told me about one his cousin uses when they play a similar course to ours here in Miami... The course where we play runs through the houses in a neighborhood. When a ball goes over the fence into a yard, it's referred to as a "New Dog Toy"...

I liked that...

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Bill L — Thu, 02 May 2019 03:53:41 GMT

I love to tell my partners that thy just hit one Obi-Wan Kenobi

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Jeff M — Thu, 02 May 2019 03:08:59 GMT

One I just remembered, a friend once played with a guy from New Zealand, his saying after a good shot with a thick Kiwi accent, "avid strike mate, avid strike"

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Darron K — Wed, 01 May 2019 12:51:43 GMT

Applicable to anything but my friends and I have used the word "Loft" or L.O.F.T. when we play for decades. You can say it in many ways depending upon the given situation. Like when you have a single join your group and he think's he knows it all and has an excuse for every shot.

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Keith M — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 23:43:22 GMT

From my early days playing golf with balata balls, "putting a smile on it", when you cut the cover of the ball on could hear the whizzing noise in the air.

Some of my group refer to a hard left pull a "Bernie" after the politician. And our local pro doesn't like the "s-word" so we say, "El Ho-sel".

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Kyle S — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:09:34 GMT

Play with what you "brought to the dance". However you are hitting it that day, go with it.

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TFisher — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:27:42 GMT

When someone's put is way short or long we call dead sheep (still ewe) when it is still their turn to put

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McKotah S — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 17:35:07 GMT

As an Oklahoman, the “Texas wedge” has always been one of my favorites! A new one has to be Justin Thomas “Talk dirty to me”! Ha!

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GStuart — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:38:11 GMT

When a guy in your foursome hits a ball that's heading out of bounds, I've been known to say, "That ball is Oscar Bravo." I didn't come up with it, heard it from a guy who called my ball Oscar Bravo back when I was 14... loved it ever since.

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Jeff M — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:29:53 GMT

Whenever I hit an errant shot, I just say, "Do something weird". 1 out of every 10 may get a favorable break. I also have a friend who can bomb the tee ball, occasionally when he's feeling like really sending it, right before starting the backswing he goes "V1", then "Rotate" or "Rotaté" after liftoff. Little aviation lingo there for you.

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Dr. Kovatchian — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:32:17 GMT

Hitting into the Jumangi (unplayable rough) became a favorite for me and my golf buddies in the late 90's...Banana Man for the habitual slicer....Hitting a Darth Fader for a deadly fade.

Cheers,
Dr. K

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Andrew A — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:01:09 GMT

Always been a fan of BIPSIC (Ball in pocket, sitting in cart) to inform your teammate that the rest of the hole is solely on them.

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Dale V — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 13:58:05 GMT

Every time i hit it left (which is way too often) i call it a "young chicken". You know, a "pullet".

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Joshua B — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:41:16 GMT

Funniest saying I ever heard was from my twin brother. He hit a poor drive on a hole and said "well that was an elephant's butt". I looked at him confused and he elaborated..."its high up and it stinks"
Lol

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Darryl M — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:54:37 GMT

When a great shot or an important putt gets made, we use the Stewart Scott phrase

"Cool as the opposite side of the pillow"

on bad shots we ask "Have you been playing long or is this your first day"

Love the Australian Draw on the range makes me think I'm that good...Lol

DM

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No'l — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:18:14 GMT

All pretty funny up there, guys, and a good topic, Rick V. ...enjoyed them all. I'll share some I can remember and I hope they make sense as I'm sure they're just made up stuff locally at the club I was in... many were meant to be funny.

One that's not difficult to figure out but the obvious threw me off was when I first started to hear the guys say when you're invited: "Balls in the air at 8:00?"

Playing in a four-ball, two man for every 6 holes, you'll have a chance to partner with each player in the group. When one of the players can't catch a good partner but have played well as another partner, the saying goes: "Whenever they're in town...!"

Rodney is friend of a friend. Nice guy. So nice that when one of us plays a shot, Rodney is always first to compliment without knowing where the ball would finish by saying, "Nice Drive! or Nice shot!" then it hits a tree or be lost... One of his best is, "That's in!" and it would lip out. It came to a point that it annoyed the group. Things like that are now called "a Rodney!".

Sometimes the second round after lunch is usually a rush to the tee without hitting the driving range. So mulligans became okay on the second round. Lunch sometimes then became more a drinks and snacks and later on some just likes to drink- nothing wrong with patronizing the club house. But it's morphed into "Hit till you're happy!" on the first hole.

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Skyler C — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:27:51 GMT

"Let the big dog eat!" -- hammer the DRIVER
Grow some legs -- please roll out

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Chuck Zirkle — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:44:26 GMT

Forgot the favorite among the seniors in my group. A "chuckster". Had issues for a few years. And the "s" word became a chuckster. As one of them would say; "Two things in life you DO NOT want to do. You don't stand on superman's cape and you never stand to the right of Chuck". My instructor has helped with that issue. Not something you really want to be named after. He reminds me every time we are on the range. =(

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Fred Closs — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 14:59:32 GMT

As for the Australian Draw, math/science may have an answer. If a player's swing path is inside to out, relative to the club face angle, the ball will start out to the right and have draw/hook spin. Also, there will be backspin and, because the shaft curves downward near impact, in response to the shaft "loading" at the initiation of the downswing, the backspin produced can cause a degree of fade to the shot. So, the side spin initially creates a draw and, as the ball reaches its pinnacle, the ball will start to fade. I've witnessed this effect a few times watching shot tracking on TV.

I've heard the snap hook referred to as a "Thurman Munson" and a "German" (a.k.a hookinf----er).

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Eric H — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:07:52 GMT

Awesome topic, maybe the best part of golf lingo are the made up derogatory terms a player mumbles to himself when playing poorly! As we all know, most of the terms couldn't be repeated here!

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Jeremy S — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 03:30:28 GMT

My group uses the term “mulvisional”. It’s when you aren’t quite sure if you want to take a mulligan, so you hit a second ball and decide once you see where each ball lies.

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Dave N — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:43:12 GMT

SWAG = scientific wild ass guess. As in" how far out am I?" " I'll swag it at 135."