![]() By opening up the clubface and taking a full swing, you’ll either make a lovely flop shot or skull the ball toward one of your partners on the other side of the green. Flop shot: A short game shot used around the green to loft a golf ball high in the air so that it will land softly on the putting surface.As Lee Trevino once said, “You can talk to a fade, but a hook won’t listen.” The duck hook even talks back. Duck hook: A really, really, really bad snap hook often accompanied by your golf buddies’ quacking sounds.Double Cross: When you try to hit a fade but end up hitting a hook and then all hell breaks loose.If your ball is on the very edge of green, you are on the dance floor, but cannot hear the band. Dance Floor: Also known as the green, it’s that place you want your golf ball doing a tango with the pin.Dammit: Nothing clever here, but undoubtedly the most common and beloved golf term.DNF / DFL: The first is an acronym for not finishing a hole or tournament (Did Not Finish) while the second is a way to say you finished last (as in Dead Last).Another way to say you hit a golf shot fat. Sometimes the divot, or the player’s club, goes further than the ball. Chunk: Hitting the ground very hard thus taking a big honking divot out of the turf.Chippie: Chipping in from around the green.Chicken Stick: The one club in your bag that you can always rely on, your go-to safety club.Coast-to-Coast Flight: A ball that is hit from one green-side bunker to a bunker on the opposite side of the putting green.For many golfers, it’s the most important meal of the day. Breakfast ball: An unofficial rule of golf that gives you a free mulligan on the first tee.Barkie: Hitting a tree and still making a par.Army Golf: Going from the left side of the hole to the right, then back to the left again (left, right, left… get it?).Albatross: The rarest of all birds, an albatross is playing the hole three under par (like making a 2 on a par-5, or acing a par-4).And Ace is what all those newfound friends in the bar will be calling you as you buy them drinks. Get 18Birdies: the #1 rated free golf appįunny Golf Terms & Lingo for the Advanced Golfer After all, nothing soothes the pain of a snap hook like a perfectly timed duck call and the sound of your golf buddies quacking up. That’s why our crack staff at 18Birdies has assembled the “Sub-Urban Dictionary of Golf,” a collection of amusing golf terms, phrases, and definitions to enhance your golf lingo. Like a 300-yard drive, having a deep golf vocabulary can truly elevate your game (you gotta talk the talk if you wanna spoil the walk). ![]() How many times have you heard one of your golf buddies utter a golf term that brought a smile to your face or busted everyone up right there on the tee? ![]()
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