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
- dance floor - Slang for green.
- dawn patrol - The players who tee off early in the day.
- dead (body bags, cadaver, on the slab, perdition, jail, tag on his toe, wearing stripes, no pulse — you get the idea) - No possible way out of the shot!
- deep - High clubface from top to bottom.
- deuce - A score of two on a given hole.
- dimple - Depression on the cover of a golf ball.
- divot - Turf displaced by the clubhead during a swing.
- dogleg - Hole on which the fairway curves one way or the other.
- dormant - Grass on the course is alive but not actively growing. Also my hair.
- dormie - The player who’s winning the match in match play — for example, five up with only five holes left, or four up with four left.
- double bogey - Score of two over par on a hole.
- double eagle - Score of three under par on a hole. Forget it, you’ll probably never get one. See also albatross.
- down - Losing.
- downhill lie - When your right foot is higher than your left when you address the ball (for right-handed players).
- downswing - The part of the swing where the clubhead is moving down, toward the ball.
- DQ’d - Disqualified.
- drain - To sink a putt.
- draw - Shot that curves from right to left.
- drive - Shot from teeing ground other than par-3 holes.
- drive for show, putt for dough - Old saying implying that putting is more important than driving.
- drive the green - When your drive finishes on the putting surface. Can happen on short par-4, or when the brakes go out on your cart.
- driving range - Place where you can go to hit practice balls.
- drop - Procedure by which you put the ball back into play after it’s been deemed unplayable.
- dub - Bad shot or player.
- duck hook (shrimp, mallard, quacker) - Shot curving severely from right to left.
- duffer - Bad player.
- dying putt - A putt that barely reaches the hole.
