_Bye_: Any hole or holes that remain to be played after the match is
finished.
_Caddie_: A person who carries the golfer's clubs.
_Carry_: The distance the ball is driven before it touches the ground.
_Cleek_: Iron-headed club used for driving.
_Club_: The implement with which the ball is struck. The heads are of
various kinds--wood, aluminium, wood with a brass sole, and iron, steel,
or gun-metal.
_Course_: That portion of the links on which the game ought to be
played.
_Cup_: A small hole in the course, frequently one made by the stroke of
some previous player.
_Dead_: A ball is said to be "dead" when it lies so near the hole that
the "putt" is a _dead_ certainty. A ball is said to fall "dead" when it
does not run after alighting.
_Divot_: A piece of turf cut out by club. Replace carefully.
_Dormy_: A player is said to be "dormy" when he is as many holes ahead
as there remain holes to play.
_Draw_: To drive widely to the left hand. (Synonymous with "hook,"
"screw" and "pull.")
_Driver or Play-Club_: A wooden-headed club with a full-length shaft,
and with which the ball can be driven the farthest distance.
_Duff_: To hit the ground behind a ball.
_Face_: First, the slope of a bunker or hillock; second, the part of the
club-head which strikes the ball.
_Flat_: A club is said to be "flat" when its head is at a very obtuse
angle to the shaft.
_Fog_: Moss, rank grass.
_Foozle_: A bungling stroke.
_Fore!_ The warning cry to any person in the way of the stroke.
(Contracted from "before.")
_Fore-Caddie_: A caddie employed to go in advance of the players and
locate the balls.
_Foursome_: A match in which four persons play: two on each side.
_Gobble_: A rapid, straight "putt" into the hole, such that, had the
ball not gone in, it would have gone some distance beyond.
_Grassed_: This is said of a wooden club whose face is slightly
"spooned" or sloped backward.
_Green_: First the whole links; second, the putting-green around the
different holes.
_Grip_: First, the part of the handle covered with leather by which the
club is grasped; second, the grasp itself.
_Gutty_: A gutta-percha golf ball.
_Half-one_: A handicap of a stroke deducted every _second_ hole.
_Half-shot_: Less than a full or a three-quarter shot.
_Halved_: A hole is said to be "halved" when each side takes the same
number of strokes. A "halved match" is a "drawn game"--that is, the
players have proved to be equal.
_Hanging ball_: A "hanging" ball is one which lies on a downward slope
in the direction in which the hole lies.
_Hazard_: A general term for bunkers, long grass, roads, water, sand,
whin, mole-hill, or other bad ground. (Rule 15).
_Head_: A head is the _lowest_ part of a club and possesses, among other
mysterious characteristics, a _sole_, a _heel_, a _toe_ or _nose_, a
_neck_, and a _face_!
_Heel_: First, the part of the head nearest the shaft; second, to hit
from this part, thus sending the ball to the right hand.
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