VERY OT: Golf "sayings" to describe shots and scenarios

[Ian Mackenzie]

Cold, snowy, bitter, "quarantine blues"...so, I'd like to start a list of golf sayings.
Things used to describe shots, scenarios and situations. As examples, I offer:


1. When your drive leaves the club face straight, then slowly veers into trouble.
- That was a "Mother-in-Law": It looked good leaving. (Old one)


2. When you hit a shot and it just sort of sucked.
-  That was a "Son-in-Law": Not quite what you had hoped for.


3. When you blade your tee shot on a Par 3 and it skanks its way toward the hole and crawls onto the green.
- That was a "Sister-in-Law": You're on it, but you know you shouldn't be.


We also have a "Diego Maradona", a "Paris Hilton", a "Prom Date"...etc.


Looking for new material here....

[Thomas Dai]

As an aside, I’m aware of a couple bunkers that are nicknamed ‘Dolly’ and ‘Parton’. If a ball finishes in the area between them it is sometimes described as being ‘in the cleavage’.


Atb

[Steve Burrows]

When your drive leaves the clubface and begins a long, low, and "sweeping" hook.
 - That is a "Hoover": like the vacuum cleaner and it's predecessor the "carpet sweeper"

[David Ober]

When someone blows a drive well past their fellow competitors, that's a "Linda Ronstadt"


Anyone know why?


We used to use it in baseball, too....

[Ian Mackenzie]

When someone blows a drive well past their fellow competitors, that's a "Linda Ronstadt"


Anyone know why?


We used to use it in baseball, too....

Blue Bayou...(Blew by you)

[Peter Pallotta]

I haven't heard many of the old 'sayings' over the years, and can't really make up a new one. But the names of certain celebrities come immediately to mind (given the kind of golf I play, and have witnessed), even though I can only sense but not actually describe the shots they refer to, eg

Now that was a Marcel Marceau!
Well there's a Joe Pesci for you!
Just call me Celine Dion!
Yeah: I'm a David Caruso alright!
Ah geez - a Freddie Mercury!
Enough of the Fran Tarkenton!
That's definitely a Jimmy Hoffa!

[Jeff_Brauer]

Oscar Bonaventure....
Running beauty (duck hook)
worm burner
rainmaker
grave digger (referring to divot of course)
ladies tee special or (dick outs, one that doesn't make it past the ladies tee)
hosel rocket
large marge special (would have whiffed without oversized head, and play on Big Bertha)

[jeffwarne]

With due respect, the thread peaked in the first  post.
I know what a "prom date" is, but I anxiously await for translations for the other two mentioned...

[Ian Mackenzie]

A "Diego Maradona" is a sliding downhill putt - "a nasty little 5 footer".


A "Paris Hilton"...well, in a 6 point Scotch game, when you get "Umbied", that can be an expensive little hole.


I think my G-rated favorite is a "Cousteau" - when you hit a ball into water yet still manage to make par.

[Ted Sturges]

A "Sophia Loren"...


...a very long putt that holds a great line for the longest time, but just misses going in.  It's a "Sophia Loren" because "it looked good for a very long time."


TS

[David Wuthrich]

West Texas Bug F_cker! - a ball that doesn't get above knee high

[Tim Martin]

I heard a caddie tell his player that three putting is a lot like masturbation. You feel bad about it but you know your gonna do it again.

[Phil Burr]

I realize this is not really consistent with the intent of this thread, but a 360 degree lipout is something I've never seen, and I doubt anyone else has either.  That would mean the ball does a complete revolution around the hole and continues heading away from the person who struck the putt.  Very unlikely.  A 180 is cruel enough...

[John Kavanaugh]

Oral Roberts.

[John Kirk]

I've heard a sharp pull hook described as a "Thurman Munson"; in other words, a dead Yank.
Sorry.

[Terry Lavin]

Pars from Mars.


Birdies from Uranus.

[Tim Leahy]

Here's a new one. A Trump is when you shoot the worst round of your life but lie and say it was the best round.

[Steve Salmen]

Stevie Wonder: should have used a driver.
Princess Di: Shouldn't have used the driver.


Never heard this one until this afternoon from my random playing partner: "I will never pay a prostitute for sex before a round of golf." No lie.

[Tom Bacsanyi]

Dated but the "Saddam Hussein"


When you go bunker to bunker.


Still my favorite.

[Ian Mackenzie]

When it takes two swings to advance your ball out of the sand....


....that’s a “Hitler”: Two shots in the bunker...

[Paul Rudovsky]

You may need to be at least 60 years old and from the northeast part of the USA to get it, but how about:


for a putt that is headed dead center and stops just short of the cup...a "Nelson Rockefeller"


translation..."died at the hole"

[Ira Fishman]

Inspired by pro golfers:


Pulling a Snead


Pulling a Sanders


A TC Chen

[SL_Solow]

Elephants "rear end".  High and smelly

[Tim Martin]

I've heard a sharp pull hook described as a "Thurman Munson"; in other words, a dead Yank.
Sorry.

John-No offense taken but you won’t hear that one much in and around metro NY. I don’t even think you would hear a Met’s fan use it out of reverence for Munson.

[BCrosby]

When someone blows a drive well past their fellow competitors, that's a "Linda Ronstadt"


Anyone know why?


We used to use it in baseball, too....

Blue Bayou!


Bob