Talk:Glossary of golf

message: "professional average result" sounds like a backronym to me, especially as the word 'par' has a meaning of 'equality' that predates golf. Does anyone have a reference for this supposed acronym? Varitek 16:30, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thinking about it, 'par' presumably predates professionalism, too. It's gotta be a backronym. Varitek 16:31, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

text: i.e., none whatsoever . . . Varitek 21:34, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  par? 

message: Birdie links to an article about the shuttlecock, chip, drive and shank to disambiguation pages that don't even mention golf, eagle and albatross to articles about the birds, and so on (I haven't tested them all). There seems to be no point in linking most of these terms to anything. Shantavira 17:44, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: wikilinks

message: Can anyone elucidate the precise distinction here?  At first wink it looks like terminology, or "formality" thereof or otherwise.  Alai 04:08, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gimmes vs conceded strokes 

message: Is it appropriate to add a reference to "The Nineteenth Hole" ? This is very common slang, in the UK at least, meaning the club house and specifically the bar in the club house. It is easily citable but may not be appropriate in a Glossary of Terms....?
It is not obviously part of the rules but it is a custom that most golfers follow. There are more people who are more familiar with the concept of the nineteenth hole than with the name given to a stroke such as a "banana ball" or varieties of the game such as a "bye", terms which are included in this glossary.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matiu matiu (talk • contribs) 14:41, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nineteenth Hole 

message: Someone with a command of both concepts and simplified explanation should undertake "Through the green", the most ubiquitous term in the rules of golf
::Undertaken. Paul M. Parks (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 04:05, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: glaring omission

message: --CopyToWiktionaryBot 00:14, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2007-02-7 Automated pywikipediabot message 

message: Anyone really ever heard of this term?  I intend to delete it.  Also, hardly belongs under 'J'.  JJ (talk) 13:17, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  For the Car Bounce 

message: It would be good if someone would propose a format for these terms that is consistent.  The formatting is all over the mat.  JJ (talk) 13:35, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting

message: Would the author of this entry, or someone else who knows, fix the last sentence? 'A variation is called "up and in"' makes no sense as a sentence and is also ambiguous: do you mean that the phrase "up and in" means the same as "up and down" or has a slightly different meaning? Depending on the meaning, it would be clearer to say '"Up and in" is an equivalent expression' or 'The related term "up and in" refers to...,' followed by a definition. Billfalls (talk) 22:02, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Up and Down

message: Forgive me (first time poster) but I noticed the Hole in One Insurance entry includes this addendum: "Hole in one insurance is also available for individuals to cover the cost of a round of drinks in the event of them achieving a Hole in one."  
Is that an example of someone vandalizing the page in jest?  I lack the expertise to amend it myself, so I'm offering it to all of you.
Alt-3 (talk) 17:55, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Hole In One Insurance

message: I can't find "plunk" mentioned anywhere except here and sites that quote the entry here. Zyxwv99 (talk) 23:08, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plunk? 

message: I don't see an entry here for "hanging lie." The OED defines it as a downhill lie sloping in the direction of play, dating from 1909, but most online golf dictionaries have it as "feet above the ball" or "feet below the ball." Google gives both of the last two definitions. One discussion board mentions the last two conflicting definitions, and says they are used with nearly equal frequency, slightly favoring the former. Probably the OEDs definition was the original, then the meaning shifted. Even though the term is now worse than ambiguous, a clarifying entry might be helpful. Zyxwv99 (talk) 23:16, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hanging lie 

message: I have added a link to "Obsolete golf clubs", but IMHO a good glossary should include terms that, while they may not be in common use (esp. in North America), are part of the literature and history and may still be in use in some places.  I'll bet that at St. Andrews they still speak of "mashies".  Most glossaries include some words marked as "old", "obsolete", "archaic", etc., and it would be good to have them all in one place so someone looking up a golfing word in a 1920s novel can find it here.  I am an amateur philologist but not a golfer, so over to you golf aficianados! D A Patriarche (talk) 17:12, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obsolete terms 

message: That's a thing, right? --Palosirkka (talk) 08:13, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Green card