Bo Derek sounds like a nice figure but ten sounds double-figured. If you play golf, you cannot wipe the smile off your face while you read this book. Celebrities and characters are scattered all over the vernacular. We call our divots bacon strips, toupees, rugs, dead cats, beaver pelts and loaves, according to their specifications. Taking large divots is considered strip mining.
Divorce court is a mixed alternate-shot tournament in which husbands and wives are paired.
A slice is a pizza ball. A shot that is hit fat and ends up in the water is a chunky tuna. A player whose club wanders about on the backswing is a sky writer. A ball that flies into the parking lot is an Oldsmobile scramble. Merriam, and probably Webster as well, would be jealous.