Golfspeak

His approach lacked the legs to reach the ..."

"He hit a wall with bogeys."

      The Guardian Newspaper (U.K.), July 19, 2003.

"His second speared into the wind."

"It is no more than a 3-wood and a flick ... and there are present some of the most educated flickers in the business."

      David Davies in The Guardian, July 19, 2003.

A low riser is an intentional shot that starts low and ends at a norma trajectory, having good distance. You need skill to play this shot (intentionally).

      Source Unknown.

"Just knock the snot out of the ball"

"That dawg will hunt"

"Y'all are on the dancefloor" (the green)

      Texas sayings by teaching pro Lefty Stackhouse, quoted in Today's Golfer, July 2003.

A lip-out is a putt that comes to and touches the hole and then changes direction.

"There are three kinds of lip-outs. There's the 'baby' lip-out, which catches just enough of the hole to swerve away.

There's the 'horseshoe', which comes right back at you. Then there's the lip-out that defies physics. Two times I've seen lip-outs where the ball spun more than 360 degrees and stayed out."

      Johnny Miller in Golf Digest, March 2003.

Michelle Wie, the 13-year-old American talent, is nicknamed The Big Wiesy. Tom Lehman, who played a pro-am with Wie, gave her this name because her swing resembled the swing of The Big Easy (Ernie Els).

      SeoulSisters.com, May 2003.

"A phrase you hear from time to time on TV is, 'he came off the shot.'

If you're befuddled by what that means, it has to do with the left shoulder on the downswing. At address, your left shoulder is positioned slightly higher tha the right. The goal, through impact, is to return the left shoulder to a slightly higher position than it occupied at address.

When a good player comes off the shot, it means his left shoulder is too high at impact, and he delivered a glancing blow.'

      Golf Digest, June 2003.

"Tomorrow is going to be a slugfest, or a puttfest, whichever way you want to look at it. I know there is going to be a slew of birdies out there and I just hope to go out and play well."

      Source Unknown.

A slugfest is a fight with bare fists, or a fight marked by an extended exchange of heavy blows. The term is borrowed from sports, specifically from boxing and baseball. To slug the ball (in baseball) is to hit it very hard.

A slugger is someone who hits lots of home runs, doubles and triples. A slugfest is a game in which lots of slugging occurred.

      Fred Couples, PGATour.com, April 27, 2003.