Golf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players (golfers), using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area. Instead, the game is played on golf "courses", each of which features a unique design, although courses typically consist of either nine or 18 holes. Golf is defined, in the rules of golf, as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules." Golf competition is generally played for the lowest number of strokes by an individual, known simply as stroke play, or the lowest score on the most individual holes during a complete round by an individual or team, known as match play.
- A
Ace
Address
Aimline (aim line)
Albatross
All square
Alloy
Approach shot
Apron
- B
Back weighting
Backspin (back spin)
Backswing (back swing)
Balance point
Balata
Ball marker
Ball retriever
Bandit
Baseball grip
Belly putter (mid putter)
Below, the hole
Bent shaft (Double-bend shaft)
Beta-titanium
Better ball
Birdie (bird)
Blade
Blast shot
Block, shot
Bogey
Bore-Through
Borrow
Bounce
Break
Breaking wrists
Broom handle putter (Broomhandle)
Buggy
Bulge
Bump-and-run, shot
Bunker
Butt
Buzzard
- C
Caddy (caddie)
Carpet
Carry
Cart (buggy)
Cast (casting)
Casting, the club
Casual Water
Cavity back
Centre of gravity (CG)
Centre-shafted
Check
Chilli dip
Chip
Chip-and-run
Chip-in
Chipper
Choke, down
Chunk
Claggy, lie
Closed, face
Closed stance
Club head speed
Club length
Clubhead (club head)
Cock, wrists
Collar
Commit
Component
Compression
Concede, putt, hole, match
Condor
COR (Coefficient of restitution)
Core strength
Course handicap
Cross handed, grip
Crown,
Cubic centimetres (CC)
Cup,
Cut, missing the
Cut shot
Cut, 1st, 2nd
- D
Dawn patrol
Dead, weight
Deep face
Deep rough
Dimple (dimple pattern)
Divot
Dogleg (dog leg)
Dormie
Double bogey
Double eagle
Downswing (down swing)
Draw
Drive the green
Driver
Driving iron
Duff
Duffer
- E
Eagle
Effective loft
Elastomer
Elevated green
Etiquette
Even par
Explosion shot
- F
Face angle
Face balanced, putter
Face insert
Face,
Fade
Fairway
Fairway bunker
Fat (heavy)
Featherie (feathery)
Feel,
Ferrule
First cut
Flag (flagstick)
Flange
Flat, lie
Flat swing
Flatstick (Flat stick)
Flex
Flier (flyer, flier lie)
Flight
Flight Control Technology (FCT)
Flop shot
Fluff
Flush
Flyer
Follow through
Fore
Forged, clubs, irons (Forging)
Forgiving
Fourball (four ball)
Foursome
Frequency matching
Fried egg, lie
Front nine
Full swing
- G
Gear effect
Gimmie (gimme, gimmee)
GIR (green in regulation)
Glove
Golf club,
Gorse
Grain
Graphite
Grass bunker
Green fee
Green in regulation (GIR)
Green jacket
Green,
Greenies
Greenkeeper (green keeper)
Greenside bunker
Greensome
Grooves,
Gross, score
Ground, the club
Ground under repair (GUR)
Gutta percha
Guttie
- H
Hack
Hacker
Half set
Halve, a hole, a match
Handicap
Hang time
Hanging lie
Hardpan
Hazard
Head cover (headcover)
Heavy (fat)
Heel
Heel-toe, weighting
Hickory, shaft
High modulus graphite
High side
Hold the green
Hole high
Hole in one
Hole out
Hole
Holed (to hole)
Honour
Hood (hooding)
Hook
Hosel
Hybrid
- I
Impact
Insert
Inside
Intended line
Interlocking, grip
Investment casting
Irons (iron)
- K
Kick point
Kil, the ball
Knock down, shot
- L
Lag, putt
Laid off
Lake ball
Launch angle
Lay up
Leading edge
Leak
Lie angle
Lift
Line up
Line
Links, course
Lip out
Lip
Lob wedge
Lob
Loft
Long game
Long irons
Long putter
Low, side
Low handicapper (low handicap)
Low profile
- M
Majors
Make the cut
Mallet
Maraging steel
Marker
Mashie
Mashie iron
Mashie niblick
Masters
Matchplay (match play)
Metal wood
Mid iron
Mid mashie
Mid putter
Milled
Mis-club
Misread
MOI (Moment of inertia)
Moveable Weight Technology (MWT)
Mulligan
Municipal course (muni)
Muscleback (muscle back)
- N
Nassau
Neck
Net score
Never up, never in
Niblick
Nineteenth hole
- O
OB
- N
Off centre hit
Offset
Onset
Open face
Open stance
Out of bounds (OB)
Overlapping grip
Oversize
- P
Par
Perimeter Weighting
Pigeon
Plumb bob
Pot bunker
Pre-shot routine
Progressive offset
Pull
Punch Shot
Push
Putt (putting)
Putte
- Q
Quitting on the ball
- R
R & A
Rake
Range ball
Reading the green
Recovery
Release
Rescue
Reverse overlap
Rhythm
Rim
Roll
Run
- S
Sand iron
Sand save
Sand Wedge
Sandy (sandie)
Scratch (scratch golfer)
Shaft
Shank
Short game
Shot making
Shotgun start
Sink a putt
Slice
Soft tipped
Sole,
Spade mashie
Spike mark
Spikes
Spin rate
Spring effect (spring like)
Square grooves
Stepless shaft
Stepped shaft (step shaft)
Stimpmeter
Stroke index (SI)
Stroke play
Stroke
Strong, loft
Stymie
Surlyn
Sweet spot (sweetspot)
Swing plane (swing path)
Swing speed
Swing weight
- T
Tap in
Tee
Tempo
Tending the pin
Texas wedge
Thin, (thinned)
Through swing
Throwing darts
Tiger line
Tight lie
Titanium
Toe
Toed in
Top line
Top, the ball (topping)
Touch
Trajectory
Trampoline effect
Trap
Travel cover
Tungsten
- U
U grooves
Under club (underclub, under clubbing)
Underspin
Up and down
Upright lie
Utility, club
- V
V grooves
Vardon grip (Vardon overlapping)
Variable face thickness (VFT)
VFT
- W
Waggle
Wedge
Whiff
Whippy
Winter greens
Wood
Wound golf ball
- X
X-out balls
- Y
Yardage marker
Yips
- Z
Zip
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