GOLF
GLOSSARY
HELPING MEMBERS TALK THE TALK ON AND OFF THE GOLF COURSE
From the claw to Amen Corner to a fried-egg lie, golf is an insider’s game that is full of colorful lingo. Teeing it up Saturday morning with your child- hood friends doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve made it into golf ’s inner circle. Let’s face it, anyone can show up for a tee time (you can even do that in jeans and an un-tucked shirt), but it takes another skill to hold court after the round or impress your boss at a cocktail party aptly discussing the intricacies of the game we all love. If you don’t know who T.C. Chen is or you get confused between GIR and FIR, read on. You will soon talk like a veteran caddie.
TERMS
Bounce: Most commonly applied to wedges, bounce is the angle formed between the leading and trailing edges of the wedge sole. More bounce will keep the club from digging too deeply into turf or sand. If you have hard sand or play from the fairway you need less bounce. Fried Egg: A lie in a bunker where the ball is half buried and resembles a fried egg. GIR and FIR: Greens
in regulation and fairways
in regulation. These statistics are used to determine accuracy. Sand Save: Saving par from the sand
bunker, splashing it onto the green and one-putting for par.
★ READER’S CHOICE
Best Ball: One of the most popular formats in which the better score from a two-person team is counted. Best ball can be played using two, three or four-person teams. Each player on the team plays his or her own golf ball and on each hole the low score—or “best ball”—of the group serves as the team score.
54 / NCGA.ORG / FALL 2010 Claw (gator
grip): An uncon- ventional method of gripping the putter where the fi ngers of the dominant hand are on top of
the grip (palm facing down) rather than on the bottom. PGA Tour professionals Chris DiMarco and Mark Calcavecchia popularized the putting style. T.C. Chen: During the 1985 U.S. Open
this professional golfer was leading the championship before double hitting his chip (rules infraction) en route to a quadruple bogey eight and second- place fi nish. He is also referred to as “Two-chip” Chen.
Carl Spackler: The iconic character played by Bill Murray in Caddyshack, acknowledged as golf’s greatest movie. Spackler is the assistant superintendent at the mythical Bushwood Country Club and is given the task of removing all the gophers on the course, a job he performs with dynamite.
Flier (jumper): A lie that causes the ball to fl y farther than intended usually because it is sitting up in the rough.
Aeration (punching): The agronom- ic process of cutting and removing small cores or holes of turf and sod on the course. Aeration is one of the most important prac-
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