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A

Ace: A hole in one whether it be on a par 3, 4 or 5.; Action: To impart backspin onto the ball.; Address: The act of taking a stance and placing the clubhead behind the ball. If the ball moves once a player has addressed the ball, there is a one-stroke penalty.; Aim: Generally, the direction in which your target lies and the direction you intend for your ball to go.; Aimline: The imaginary straight line, extended level with the hole, on which the player INTENDS to initially strike his putt. After reading the green, an aimline is chosen to allow for all the breaks or curves which are expected to take place before the ball falls in the hole.; Airmail the green: When a player overpowers a shot aimed at the putting green, and the ball flight carries it completely over the green.; Albatross: a hole played three strokes under par. Statistically speaking, it is more difficult to get one on a par 5 (ie to hole the ball on the player's second stroke) than it is to get a hole in one on a par 4.; Alignment: The position of a player's body relative to the target line of the ball.; All Square: in match play, a match is all square (tied) when both players or teams have won the same number of holes. It is abbreviated \"AS\" on the scorecard.; Ambrose: A system of team play whereby each player takes a tee shot, after which the most favourable ball position is chosen. All the team's players then take a shot from this new position, and so on. (Also known as a Texas Scramble); Angle of Attack: Also referred to as \"Angle of Approach\". The angle at which the club head strikes the ball. This affects the trajectory the ball will travel and spin.; Approach Shot: A shot intended to land the ball on the green.; Apron: The grass surface on the perimeter of the green that separates it from the fairway.; Attend (the Flagstick): When a player holds and removes the flagstick for another player.;

B

Back nine: Holes 10 through 18 on a golf course.; Backspin: The spin imparted to a ball when struck with a sloping clubface, a wedge for instance. In the air, backspin generates aerodynamic lift causing the ball to follow a higher trajectory than would otherwise be the case, often resulting in a significantly longer carry. On landing, backspin causes the ball to stop more quickly, and even to spin backward. Also called bite or action.; Ball: A small sphere used in playing golf, which is intended to be struck by a club and soar in the general direction of the green for a particular hole, if one is playing on a regulation golf course. The important thing is to be able to identify your ball and distinguish it from the balls used by other players. Normally this is done by noting the brand and number of a ball, though some players will often add personalized markings to further differentiate their own sphere of choice.; Ball-marker: any small object used to indicate where a player's ball is on the green. Coins are common ball-markers.; Ballmark Tool: tool used to repair an indentation on the green caused by the ball on an approach shot (often inaccurately called a Divot Tool).; Banana-ball: an extreme slice.; Bare Lie: When the ball lies directly on hard ground without any grass to buoy the ball up - ie where there is no grass creating a gap between ball and the ground. Applicable when practicing off hard mats.; Barkie: achieving a score of par or better on a hole after the ball hits a tree on the same hole.; Baseball grip: grip style with all ten fingers on the club. Also known as the \"Ten-Finger Grip\".; Best ball: where a single player plays a match against a team consisting of either two or three players.; BIGGA: The British & International Golf Greenkeepers Association is the professional association dealing with all matters of golf management from a greenkeeper's viewpoint.; Birdie: a hole played one stroke under par.; Bite: heavy backspin applied to a ball that causes it to stop quickly instead of rolling when it lands.; Blade: term used to describe one type of iron made by forging the metal rather than from a cast mold. Also, describes a shot struck \"thinly\" with an iron in the middle of the golf ball.; Blind: A shot that does not allow the golfer to see where the ball will land, such as onto an elevated green from below.; Block: a shot played severely to the right; as opposed to slices, which curve from left to right, a blocked shot goes directly right. Similar to the \"push\".; Bogey: a hole played one stroke over par.; Bounce: technically, the measure of the angle from the front edge of a club's sole to the point that rests on the ground when addressing the ball. Clubs (usually wedges) with a higher bounce angle will resist digging into the turf.; Break: the amount of lateral slope one must account for on a putt. In the United Kingdom, it is known as \"borrow\".; Bump and run: a low-trajectory shot that is intended to get the ball rolling along the fairway and up onto the green. Similar to a chip shot, but played from a greater distance.; Bunker Fairway: Hazard of bare earth or sand usually in a recessed depression. Grass and wooden walls or banks are not part of the hazard.;

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