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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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| Hacker
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A terrible golfer. A person who hacks it around the golf course.
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| Hanging
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A lie where the ball is above the golfer's feet.
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| Hooding the club
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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.
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| Hot
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A ball that is traveling 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 rought hot. In most cases, this shot will r
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| Hung it out
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A golfer who attempts to play a draw but hits a straight shot instead is said to have hung it out.
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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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