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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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| Dance floor
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The Green. Perhaps the term comes from the smooth surface and relative flatness of the green, or maybe it is meant to convey the joy that accompanies finally making it to the green.
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| Dawn patrol
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The golfers who are the first to play each day, so named because they start their match around the course at sunrise.
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| Die it in the hole
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The action of putting the ball so that it falls into the cup as it is dying, or losing the last of its momentum. Such strokes run the risk of becoming Central America putts, left on the amateur side of the hole
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| Dog track
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Derogatory term for a golf course that is not well maintained.
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| Dribbler
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A shot that travels only a few feet, usually without getting airborne.
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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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