Name a golf term

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Niblick— Hickory-era lofted iron, roughly the modern nine-iron.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• 150 marker
• 2 and 1
• Abnormal course condition
• Acey deucey
• Address
• Adjustable hosel
• Adjusted gross score
• Advice
• Aeration
• Aeration plug
• Aggregate
• Aim point
• Aiming post
• Alignment
• Alignment stick
• Alps hole
• Am-am
• Amateur
• Anchored putting
• Angle of attack
• Animal hole
• Apex height
• Approach course
• Apron
• Army golf
• Arnie
• Artisan golfer
• Assistant pro
• Attend the flagstick
• Auto press
• Away
• Back pin
• Back-on-the-line relief
• Baffy
• Bag drop
• Bag tag
• Bail out
• Balata
• Ball drop
• Ball line marker
• Ball position
• Ball shagger
• Ball speed
• Ball striking
• Ball tracer
• Ball washer
• Ballot
• Banana ball
• Bare lie
• Barkie— Side bet won by making par after hitting a tree.
• Beach
• Belly putter
• Bentgrass
• Bermuda grass
• Beverage cart
• Biarritz
• Bifurcation
• Bingo bango bongo
• Birdie blitz
• Birdie machine
• Birdie putt
• Bisque
• Blade iron
• Blade putter
• Blaster
• Blind hole
• Blind shot
• Blind wolf
• Blob
• Block
• Bloodsomes
• Blow-up hole
• Blue stakes
• Board competition
• Bogey golfer
• Bogey juice
• Bogey rating
• Bogey-free round
• Bomb
• Bomb and gouge
• Bomber
• Bore-through hosel
• Bounce
• Bounce back
• Boundary fence
• Boundary object
• Bramble ball
• Brassie
• Breakfast ball
• Breaking putt
• British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association
• Brush tee
• Bucket of balls
• Buffalo grass
• Buffer zone
• Bullarding
• Bunker face
• Bunker lip
• Bunt
• Burn
• Butt cap
• Butt end
• Buzzard
• Bye
• Cabbage
• Caddie master
• Caddylactic
• Calcutta auction
• Callaway system
• Camel
• Cape hole
• Captain's day
• Captain's drive-in
• Card and pencil
• Carry
• Carryover
• Cart bag
• Cart barn
• Cart path only
• Casting
• Castle tee
• Casual water
• Category handicap
• Cavity back
• Championship course
• Championship tees
• Chapman
• Chicago
• Chicken wing
• Chili dip
• Chipper
• Chipping green
• Chipping net
• Chocolate drops
• Chop
• Church pews
• Circles and squares
• Claw grip
• Cleek
• Clone club
• Closed face
• Closed out
• Closest to the pin
• Club championship
• Club fitting
• Club path
• Club-length
• Clubface
• Clubhead
• Coefficient of restitution
• Coffin bunker
• Combo tees
• Come-backer
• Comfort station
• Committee
• Competition scratch score
• Competition Stableford adjustment
• Composite course
• Compress
• Compression
• Concession
• Conditions affecting the stroke
• Conforming club
• Corded grip
• Count-back
• Counterbalance
• Course handicap
• Course rating
• Course record
• Courtesy of the course
• Criers and whiners
• Cross bunker
• Cross-handed
• Crowned green
• Cup liner
• Cuppy lie
• Dart
• Daytona
• Dead
• Dead weight
• Dell
• Desert course
• Devil ball
• Dew sweepers
• Differential
• Distance ball
• Distance measuring device
• Divot mix
• Divot tool
• Dog licence
• Dormie— Up by exactly as many holes as remain in match play.
• Dormie house
• Dots
• Double bag
• Double cross
• Double dogleg
• Double green
• Double press
• Downhill lie
• Downhill putt
• Downland
• Draw bias
• Driver cover
• Driving bay
• Driving distance
• Driving iron
• Drop
• Duck hook
• Dynamic loft
• Early extension
• Eden hole
• Electric trolley
• Elevated green
• Equipment rules
• Equitable stroke control
• Exact handicap
• Executive course
• Extra stiff
• Face angle
• Face balanced
• Face insert
• Fade bias
• Fairway cut
• Fairway finder
• Fairway hit
• Fall line
• False front
• Family tees
• Fat side
• Feather ball
• Featured group
• Fellow competitor
• Ferret
• Ferrule
• Fescue rough
• Firm and fast
• First cut
• Fivesome
• Flag tournament
• Flier
• Flushed
• Foot wedge
• Foozle
• Forecaddie
• Forged iron
• Forward tees
• Fourteen club rule
• Free relief
• Frenchie
• Front pin
• Frost delay
• Funnies
• Game improvement iron
• Gap wedge
• Gear effect
• General area
• General penalty
• Golden ferret
• Goldie bounce
• Golf ball retriever
• Golf cap
• Golf etiquette
• Golf GPS
• Golf hole
• Golf simulator
• Golf society
• Golf tan
• Golf towel
• Golf umbrella
• Golf visor
• Golf widow
• Golfer's elbow
• Grain
• Green book
• Green complex
• Green rolling
• Green speed
• Greenie
• Greenkeeper
• Greensomes
• Grip it and rip it
• Grip pressure
• Grip tape
• Groove
• Groove rule
• Gross score
• Ground under repair
• Grounding the club
• Guttie
• Half
• Halfway house
• Ham and egg
• Hammer
• Handsy
• Hardpan
• Haskell ball
• Heathland
• Heel
• Hickory golf
• Hickory shaft
• High ball
• High bounce
• High handicapper
• High spin ball
• Hogan
• Hogback
• Hold the green
• Hole in one insurance
• Hole location
• Hollow coring
• Hollywood
• Honors
• Horseshoe
• Hosel
• Hustler
• Illegal ball
• Impact bag
• Impact tape
• In play
• In the drink
• In the soup
• Insert putter
• Integral object
• Interlocking grip
• Iron covers
• Iron shot
• Island green
• Jab
• Jail
• Jigger
• Jumbo grip
• Junior tees
• Knee-knocker
• Known or virtually certain
• Ladies flex
• Lake ball
• Landing area
• Lateral relief
• Lateral water hazard
• Launch angle
• Launch monitor
• Lawn dart
• Leading edge
• Let it ride
• Leven
• Lie angle
• Lie board
• Line
• Line of play
• Links land
• Local rule
• Loft and lie machine
• Lofting iron
• Lone wolf
• Long game
• Long putter
• Longest drive
• Longest putt
• Loose impediment
• Loss of hole
• Low ball
• Low bounce
• Low compression ball
• Low handicapper
• Low runner
• Made cut did not finish
• Mallet putter
• Marker
• Marker post
• Marking the card
• Marshal
• Mashie
• Mashie niblick
• Maximum score
• Medalist
• Member's bounce
• Member's guest
• Mesh pattern ball
• Metal spike
• Mid-amateur
• Mid-mashie
• Midsize grip
• Milled face
• Mishit
• Misread
• Modified alternate shot
• Moment of inertia
• Monday qualifier
• Monthly medal
• Moorland
• Mounding
• Mountain course
• Movable obstruction
• Moved
• Moving day
• Mowing height
• Mud ball
• Multilayer ball
• Municipal course
• Murphy
• Nassau
• Native area
• Natural forces
• Nearest point of complete relief
• Net double bogey
• Net score
• Never up, never in
• Nine wood
• Nines
• No card
• No play zone
• Non-conforming club
• Nose
• Obstruction
• Offset
• On the charge
• One iron
• One up
• Onset
• Oozlum
• Open competition
• Ostrich
• Out and back
• Outside influence
• Over the top
• Overseeding
• Pace of play
• Pairing
• Par 6
• Par competition
• Par save
• Par seven
• Par three course
• Parkland
• Patsome
• Penal
• Penalty relief
• Pencil bag
• Peoria system
• Perfect round
• Perimeter weighting
• Persimmon driver
• PGA Tour Champions
• Pick up
• Pick-up sticks
• Pin high
• Pin seeker
• Pin sheet
• Pistol grip
• Pitch and putt
• Pitching niblick
• Plastic tee
• Play club
• Play it as it lies
• Players iron
• Playing conditions calculation
• Playing handicap
• Playing partner
• Plugged lie
• Plumb-bob
• Plus fours
• Plus handicap— Better than scratch, so the golfer gives strokes back to the course.
• Point of maximum available relief
• Polie
• Post a score
• Postage stamp green
• Posture
• Pot bunker
• Practice bunker
• Practice green
• Practice net
• Pre-shot routine
• Preferred lies
• Press
• Primary rough
• Private course
• Proximity to the hole
• Public course
• Pull
• Punch out
• Punchbowl
• Push
• Push-up green
• Putting clock
• Putting iron
• Putting mat
• Putts per round
• Quadruple bogey
• Qualifying school
• Quota
• Rabbit
• Railway ties
• Rain gloves
• Rain suit
• Rake
• Rake the bunker
• Range ball
• Range mat
• Ready golf
• Recovery shot
• Red stakes
• Redan
• Regripping
• Regulation course
• Release
• Relief
• Relief area
• Repair your pitch mark
• Replace
• Replace your divot
• Reshafting
• Resort course
• Reverse bounce back
• Reverse pivot
• Reversible course
• Ringer
• Risk-reward hole
• Road hole
• Roll out
• Roll-up
• Round robin
• Rowan match play
• Rub of the green
• Rubber tee
• Rules official
• Run
• Run-off area
• Running chip
• Rut iron
• Rye grass
• Sand scrape
• Sand-based green
• Sandbox
• Sandie
• Scalping
• Scarifying
• Sclaff
• Scorecard pencil
• Scoring average
• Scotch foursomes
• Scrambling
• Second cut
• Semi-blind
• Senior flex
• Senior golfer
• Senior tees
• Serious breach
• Seve
• Seven wood
• Shaft band
• Shaft kick point
• Shag bag
• Shamble
• Shoot your age
• Shoot your temperature
• Short course
• Short game area
• Short side
• Sidehill lie
• Sidespin
• Sightline
• Signature hole
• Signing your card
• Single-digit handicap
• Sit
• Six-six-six
• Sky
• Slope rating
• Smash factor
• Snake
• Society day
• Sod wall bunker
• Sole
• Sole grind
• Sole plate
• Solid tining
• Spade mashie
• Speed
• Spikeless shoes
• Spin loft
• Spin rate
• Sponsor exemption
• Spoon
• Sprauchle
• Spray
• Sprinkler head
• Sprinkler yardage
• Stadium course
• Staff bag
• Stand bag
• Standard scratch score
• Starter
• Step cut
• Stick it
• Stiff flex
• Stiff it
• Stimpmeter— A grooved ramp that rolls a ball to measure green speed.
• Straight ball
• Strategic
• Stroke index
• Strokes gained
• Strong grip
• Stymie— Until 1952 an opponent's ball could legally block your putt.
• Substitute
• Sucker pin
• Summer rules
• Sunday bag
• Sunday stick
• Surlyn
• Swale
• Sway
• Sweep
• Swindle
• Swing plane
• Swing trainer
• Swing weight
• System 36
• Takeaway
• Target line
• Tee complex
• Tee marker
• Tee set
• Tee sheet
• Tee to green
• Template hole
• Tempo
• Ten-finger grip
• Tester
• Texas wedge— Putting from off the green, a sound choice in Texas wind.
• Thatch
• The R&A
• The turn
• Three putt poker
• Three-ball
• Three-piece ball
• Three-quarter shot
• Threesome
• Through line
• Through the green
• Tiered green
• Tiger Slam
• Titanium driver
• Toe
• Toe hang
• Top spin
• Topdressing
• Torque
• Tour ball
• Tour card
• Trailing edge
• Tree shot
• Trouble
• Turkey
• Twilight rate
• Two wood
• Two-ball putter
• Two-club competition
• Two-piece ball
• Two-tee start
• Twos
• Twosome
• U-grooves
• Undulation
• Uphill lie
• Uphill putt
• Urethane cover
• USGA green
• V-grooves
• Vanity handicap
• Vardon grip— Overlapping grip popularised by six-time Open champion Harry Vardon around 1900.
• Vaulting dormie
• Vegas
• Verticutting
• Volcano green
• Waggle
• Waste area
• Watson
• Weak grip
• Wedge shot
• Weight port
• Weighted club
• Whin
• White stakes
• Winter green
• Winter league
• Winter rules
• Winterkill
• Wire-to-wire
• Wolf
• Wooden tee
• Woodie
• World handicap system
• Wound ball
• Wrong ball
• Wrong green
• Wrong place
• X-out
• Yardage book
• Yardage marker
• Yellow ball
• Yellow stakes
• Zoysia

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• All square
• Approach shot
• Backspin
• Backswing
• Ball marker
• Best ball
• Break
• Bump and run
• Bunker shot
• Cart attendant
• Cart path
• Chip in
• Clubhouse
• Condor— Four under on one hole, recorded fewer than ten times ever.
• Country club
• Cut
• Dance floor
• Downswing
• Draw
• Duff
• Fade
• Fairway bunker
• Fairway wood
• Fat shot
• Flop shot
• Follow through
• Four-ball
• Foursomes
• Fried egg— A ball half-buried in its own bunker crater, yolk-style.
• Fringe
• Golf bag
• Golf glove
• Golf professional
• Golf shoes
• Golf trolley
• Grand Slam
• Green fee
• Green in regulation
• Greenside bunker
• Grip
• Hacker
• Hazard
• Head cover
• Hole out
• Hybrid
• Lag putt
• Lay up
• Leaderboard
• Lie
• Links
• Lip out
• Lob wedge
• Loft
• Lost ball
• LPGA
• Major
• Match play
• Nineteenth hole— Clubhouse bar, and the only hole many golfers play well.
• One-putt
• Par 4
• Par 5
• Penalty stroke
• Pitch
• Pitch mark
• Pitching wedge
• Play through
• Playoff
• Practice swing
• Pro shop
• Pro-am
• Provisional ball
• Punch shot
• Rangefinder
• Round
• Sand save
• Sand wedge
• Sandbagger
• Scorecard
• Scramble
• Scratch golfer
• Shaft
• Short game
• Shotgun start
• Skins
• Slow play
• Snowman— Golf slang for an 8, named for the number's shape.
• Stableford
• Stance
• Stinger
• Stroke play
• Sudden death
• Sweet spot
• Tap in
• Thin shot
• Three-putt
• Top
• Triple bogey
• Two-putt
• Unplayable lie
• Up and down
• Whiff
• Wood
• Worm burner
• Yardage
• Yips

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Albatross
• Back nine
• Chip
• Club
• Course
• Cup
• Divot
• Dogleg
• Double bogey
• Drive
• Driving range
• Flagstick
• Front nine
• Gimme
• Golf ball
• Golf cart
• Handicap
• Hook
• Iron
• Mulligan
• Out of bounds
• Par 3
• PGA
• Putter
• Rough
• Shank
• Slice
• Stroke
• Swing
• Tee box
• Tee off
• Tee time
• Water hazard
• Wedge

The most common answer on the board.

• Birdie
• Bogey
• Bunker
• Caddie
• Driver
• Eagle
• Fairway
• Fore
• Green
• Hole in one
• Par
• Putt
• Tee