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GOLF SLANG
9/5/2010
Golf has its own special language. If you want to look like you know what you're doing, even if you dont, you'd better master golf's own lingo.
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| Cabbage
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Deep, thick, inescapable rough. Also called spinach. Green, leafy vegetables are not good for your golf game.
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| Can
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The hole. The cup. The place to put your putts. When you sink a putt, you canned it.
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| Carpet
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The green. Soft, well-manicured fairways are also referred to as being "like carpet."
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| Cart girl
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The lovely young lady who operates the beer cart (a motorized vehicle that carries refreshments to golfers out on the course). The refreshments typically cost a fortune, which probably explains why golf courses hire beautiful young women to sell them.
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| Cart golf
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Term for when two golfers riding in the same golf cart repeatedly hit the ball in the same direction (usually into the rough). An efficient but not necessarily pleasant way to play golf.
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 The words and definitions found here are from The Little Book of Golf Slang by Randy Voorhees.
For more infomation, visit our Golf Books section to read up on the summary of this book and to purchase it.
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