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References External links 0–9 19th hole The clubhouse bar. A ace When a player hits the ball directly from the tee into the hole with one stroke. Also called a hole in one. address The act of taking a stance and placing the club-head behind the golf ball. If the ball moves once a player has addressed the ball, there is a one-stroke penalty, unless it is clear that the actions of the player ...
Davie Grant is stymied on the 17th green at North Berwick, Scotland, and is attempting to chip his ball over the ball that is blocking the hole (c. 1888). A stymie was a situation in greens play in golf where one player's ball blocked the path of another's to the cup, governed by a now obsolete rule of golf. Formerly, the blocked player was not ...
Chip (golf), a golf shot also known as half-swing; Chip (association football), an association football shot also known as a lob; Chip shot (gridiron football), a short field goal attempt in gridiron football; Chip (curling), a takeout shot striking a rock at an angle; Chip shot (idiom), a phrase denoting that an attempted action has a low ...
In golf, the yips is a movement disorder known to interfere with putting. The term yips is said to have been popularized by Tommy Armour—a golf champion and later golf teacher—to explain the difficulties that led him to abandon tournament play. [4] In describing the yips, golfers have used terms such as twitches, staggers, jitters and jerks.
Golf: Typical; what is expected. Derived from the literal meaning of par for the course in golf. [57] Political football Association football: an issue in politics that is continually debated but is yet to be resolved. [58] pull one's punches Boxing: To use less force than one is capable of; to be gentle or lenient. In boxing, a boxer who holds ...
Whether you're heading "upstate" for a taste of Americana or passing through on your way to Niagara Falls, quickly familiarizing yourself with some Buffalo slang terms and phrases guarantees that ...
According to Bark.us, a company that decodes teen slang, "mid" is "a term used to describe something that is average, not particularly special, 'middle of the road.'"
Chipping, a method of propagating plant bulbs, linked to twin-scaling; Chipping, the process of inserting a microchip implant (animal) Chipping potato, a potato variety well-suited to making potato chips; Chip (golf), a type of golf shot; Chipping, or chip coding, in telecommunications theory, a method for encoding signals with many diverse ...