niblick
Example Sentences
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Old Morris passed on his mashie niblick — an early term for a seven iron — to his equally talented son, Young Tom Morris, who won the British Open four times from 1868 to 1872.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2025
My 83 was a sorry thing, but I did hit a niblick to remember.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 29, 2017
Yaya Touré turned a foot into a niblick that dinked the ball up and into David Silva's path.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 2013
And then there are the nicknames for this inner society’s tools: big dog, flat stick, belly putter, cavity back, hosel, kickpoint, camber, off-set, niblick, mashie, brassie, bounce, flange.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2010
Such a club was not known, but I can remember that about this day I became the proud owner of a club just then coming into vogue under the name of the wooden niblick.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. Hutchinson
