Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Home Course - A place where your chief handicap is that everyone knows exactly what it is.

[Stan Nehilla]

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Home hole - The eighteenth and final hole on any golf course, so named because the golfer is approaching home-the nineteenth hole.

[Stan Nehilla]

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Honour - The privilege of being laughed at first on the tee.

[Stan Nehilla]

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Horses for courses - Players (horses) who play certain courses well because those courses fit their style of play. Ben Hogan played Riviera Country Club very well, so the course became known as Hogan's Alley. Mark O'Meara plays Pebble Beach very well, having won there on four occasions. Whether you're a thoroughbred or a nag, you probably play some courses better than others.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Hooding the club - A stroke in which the golfer moves his hands ahead and tilts the club head forward (to reduce the club's loft). Done to make the ball fly lower or to get more distance than normal from a club.

[Stan Nehilla]

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Hook & Slice - To hit a shot that curves sharply left (hook) or right (slice), respectively. Players who do one or the other should consider changing the way they stand, hold the club, or swing. Players who do both should consider changing the way they spend their weekends.

[Stan Nehilla]

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Hot - A ball that is travelling at a high rate of speed without much backspin (and many times at a lower trajectory than desired) is said to be hot. A ball may come into the green hot or out of the rough hot. In most cases, this shot will run along the ground or green much farther than desired, making the golfer hot, too.

[Stan Nehilla]

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Hump - When a caddie is carrying a golf bag around the course, he's humping it.

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Hunching - Term for an illegal tactic in which a golfer inches closer to the hole when replacing a marked ball on the green. If your opponent hits his approach shot twenty feet from the hole but his first putt is only a fifteen-footer, add huncher to the list of names you call him.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Hung it out - A golfer who attempts to play a draw but hits a straight shot instead is said to have hung it out.