This is a great topic! Looking forward to reading some of the comments on this one..

I don't really have any but my favorite is Justin Thomas when he said "talk dirty to me" during a tournament. I'm guessing this means he knew it was gonna be a great shot after the hit and land closely to the hole..

The lunatics that I used to play with when I lived in NY used to call a chunked shot a " Don Ho ". I have no idea what the relationship was to the late singer.

Ravi Shanker, most likely no need for an explanation there...

Great thread Rick! I love the post and can't wait to hear what others add to the discussion. Some of my personal favorites are the "Texas Wedge" and "Chili Dip" although they aren't the most original.

I have personally not heard of the Austrailian Draw but I do believe I have hit one unintentionally using a bald range ball as well.

We've shortened the "Dinging and Donging" to what I'm sure is used by tons of folks, and just refer to a round like that as an appearance by the Bell Brothers. But our group is so full of sayings (all copied or stolen of course), that it's a comedy show of it's own. Beside the usual of seeing someone with a new pair of wild pants and saying, "what time does the rest of the band get here", or "how do you fit your accordion in that bag", or Rodney Dangerfield's "you buy a hat like that you get a free bowl of soup" . But most of all it's more lines than terms.

Verne Lundquist's calls of Nicklaus' birdie "Yes Sir!" when one of our guys makes a big put, or "Have you Ever, in your life....", for the same thing. Plenty of Caddy Shack lines, and Tin Cup lines throughout, "little gust there romes", "it's a Cinderella story...." etc. Then there's the " Venturi'isms" stolen from Ken Venturi. When someone is seen contemplating a near impossible miracle shot, ".....Jimmy, now he's bringing 6 and 7 into the picture". Or when dumping it into the water short of the green, ".....Jimmy he simply didn't have enough club". In our group there's a million of them and they never end. They usually help ease the pain of a failed shot with a quick laugh, and even make the one trying the impossible shot re-think it.

The worst mistake ever made by one of the group though was the buddy that went down to Bethpage to play the black course, as a single. I'm sure many have heard it and I relay it with no disrespect here. He kept pulling everything left, and kept on saying, another "Thurman Munsun". After a few times saying it, the others in the group asked what the heck he meant, by that. Forgetting where he was of course, he said told them, you know a "dead yank". He was a pilgrim in an unholy land for the rest of that round.

Finally, our course has tough greens, much undulation and varying elevation changes. Some of the large humps are referred to as "Irish burial grounds", so there are no "gimmees' in our group for the most part. If you have to ask if it's good, you know the answer already, but it doesn't stop some at times, to which then the question comes "is that good", my partner always answers "it's not bad".

I have friends in Europe who refer to a double bogey or worse as a BLOB. It's a noun and a verb. "I blobbed the second hole." "I made a blob on the 18th."

I suspect we've all heard a shank called a Chinese Hook.

I have a friend who yells at his wedge shots to "HOOVER"... referencing the vacuum, hoping the ball will back up.

My friends have to watch where my ball goes because my eyesight is so bad. They've adopted the expression BB for a good shot, a BLIND BEAUTY.

Growing up in Louisville, Ky, there was a club called Woodhaven. They had what were then saplings planted in the rough and if you managed to hit a shot out that somehow missed all the trees, it was simply called a Woodhaven Special. The phrase eventually worked its way into conversations at every club in Louisville.

Skied shots are moonshots or satellites. Topped shots are worm burners.

I'll skip the more obscene references. :-)

I've hit that australian draw on the range as well, they defy all laws of physics .

The most unspoken word in golf..... Ya got the Yips... We all know what it means, and shudder when we see it happen to a buddy knowing at any time, on any round it could happen to us. My wife came in after taking my car on an errand, of course pga is on Sirius... She asks what are the Yips? I said don't ever say that word around me again! .. " they were taking about it on the radio, saying Jordan had it, is it a disease or something?" Yeah it's really, really bad, no cure, no medicine, nothing but time can cure it if your lucky.
Denny

"Zip" was the term used quite often with old wedges and the Professional ball.
"Nip" is the term for today's C-C wedges and ProV's.

"Smash factor" is the fancy term for "well struck." Ha!

Brother-in-lawing.....in 4 ball matches.......
A butter cut.....a slight cut......what my instructor has been working on with me......as he says smooth as butter, Chuck

Rick,
My favourite expression was from a scottish friend (the accent, I think helps). An average drive would be greeted with: -
"Well, she's not my darling, but she'll do..."
JT

SWAG = scientific wild ass guess. As in" how far out am I?" " I'll swag it at 135."

My group uses the term “mulvisional”. It’s when you aren’t quite sure if you want to take a mulligan, so you hit a second ball and decide once you see where each ball lies.

Awesome topic, maybe the best part of golf lingo are the made up derogatory terms a player mumbles to himself when playing poorly! As we all know, most of the terms couldn't be repeated here!

As for the Australian Draw, math/science may have an answer. If a player's swing path is inside to out, relative to the club face angle, the ball will start out to the right and have draw/hook spin. Also, there will be backspin and, because the shaft curves downward near impact, in response to the shaft "loading" at the initiation of the downswing, the backspin produced can cause a degree of fade to the shot. So, the side spin initially creates a draw and, as the ball reaches its pinnacle, the ball will start to fade. I've witnessed this effect a few times watching shot tracking on TV.

I've heard the snap hook referred to as a "Thurman Munson" and a "German" (a.k.a hookinf----er).

Forgot the favorite among the seniors in my group. A "chuckster". Had issues for a few years. And the "s" word became a chuckster. As one of them would say; "Two things in life you DO NOT want to do. You don't stand on superman's cape and you never stand to the right of Chuck". My instructor has helped with that issue. Not something you really want to be named after. He reminds me every time we are on the range. =(

"Let the big dog eat!" -- hammer the DRIVER
Grow some legs -- please roll out

All pretty funny up there, guys, and a good topic, Rick V. ...enjoyed them all. I'll share some I can remember and I hope they make sense as I'm sure they're just made up stuff locally at the club I was in... many were meant to be funny.

One that's not difficult to figure out but the obvious threw me off was when I first started to hear the guys say when you're invited: "Balls in the air at 8:00?"

Playing in a four-ball, two man for every 6 holes, you'll have a chance to partner with each player in the group. When one of the players can't catch a good partner but have played well as another partner, the saying goes: "Whenever they're in town...!"

Rodney is friend of a friend. Nice guy. So nice that when one of us plays a shot, Rodney is always first to compliment without knowing where the ball would finish by saying, "Nice Drive! or Nice shot!" then it hits a tree or be lost... One of his best is, "That's in!" and it would lip out. It came to a point that it annoyed the group. Things like that are now called "a Rodney!".

Sometimes the second round after lunch is usually a rush to the tee without hitting the driving range. So mulligans became okay on the second round. Lunch sometimes then became more a drinks and snacks and later on some just likes to drink- nothing wrong with patronizing the club house. But it's morphed into "Hit till you're happy!" on the first hole.

When a great shot or an important putt gets made, we use the Stewart Scott phrase

"Cool as the opposite side of the pillow"

on bad shots we ask "Have you been playing long or is this your first day"

Love the Australian Draw on the range makes me think I'm that good...Lol

DM

Funniest saying I ever heard was from my twin brother. He hit a poor drive on a hole and said "well that was an elephant's butt". I looked at him confused and he elaborated..."its high up and it stinks"
Lol