Wit & Wisdom of Golf

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Liz Taylor - A shot that's a little fat but still okay. Not to be confused with a Roseanne, which is very fat and not okay.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Local Rules - A set of regulations that are ignored only by players on one specific course rather than by golfers as a whole.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Lockjaw - Condition afflicting golfers who refuse to concede putts, even very short ones.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Loft - The angle of a clubface and the corresponding steepness of the shot it will produce. Loft angles range from the relatively shallow ones used for long, unobstructed shots (12° for a driver, 20° for a fairway wood, 30° for a 5-iron) to the much steeper ones needed to clear obstacles (47 ° for a 9-iron, 58° for a sand wedge, 75° for the tip of a golf shoe, and up to 100° for a throwing arm).

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Long and wrong - Description of a golfer who can hit the ball long distances but seldom in the right direction. As the late, great Harvey Penick said, "The woods are full of long hitters."

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Golf Dictionary

Looper - Caddie.

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Golf Dictionary

Loose Impediments - Natural and legally movable objects that interfere with play, such as dazed or disoriented reptiles or mammals, stunned birds, pulverised stones, flattened bushes, uprooted shrubs, severed branches and felled trees, or if you are Tiger Woods boulders that require a complete work crew to move. See OBSTRUCTIONS.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Lost Ball - An opponent's missing ball after 90 seconds of searching, or one of your own after 20 minutes.

[Stan Nehilla]

Golf Dictionary

Lot of game - Phrase describing a golfer who is excellent in all phases of the game. You say, "He certainly has a lot of game." Then you say, "I hate him."

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Golf Dictionary

Low Side - The side of a hole on a sloping green that gravity tends to send a ball away from. Canny golfers always aim for the "high side" of the hole or lay the flagstick along the edge of the cup and putt toward this "safe side."