Golf In The Villages
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Golf Terminology
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
- rabbit - A beginning player.
- rake - Device used to smooth the sand after you leave a bunker.
- range - Practice area.
- range ball - Generally a low-quality ball used on a driving range.
- rap - To hit a putt firmly.
- read the green - To assess the path on which a putt must travel to the hole.
- regular - A shaft with normal flex.
- regulation - Par figures.
- release - The point in the downswing where the wrists uncock.
- relief - Where you drop a ball that was in a hazard or affected by an obstruction.
- reverse overlap - Putting grip in which the little finger of the right hand overlaps the index finger of the left hand.
- rhythm - The tempo of your swing.
- rifle a shot - To hit the ball hard, straight, and far.
- rim the cup - See lip out.
- ringer score - Your best-ever score at each hole on the course
- Road Hole - The 17th hole at St. Andrews — the hardest hole in the world.
- roll - On wooden clubs, the curve on the clubface from the top to the bottom of the face.
- rough - Unprepared area of long grass on either side of the fairway.
- round - Eighteen holes of golf.
- Royal & Ancient Golf Club - The organization that runs the British Open.
- rub of the green - Luck.
- run - The roll on the ball after landing.
- run up - A type of shot to play when the ground is firm. You bounce the ball onto the green and let it roll to the hole.
