mashie

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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

But forget about carrying the golf clubs unless your collection is limited to a single niblick or mashie.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2016

In the lovely brick and half-timbered clubhouse-cum-museum, where it is 1926 still, the mashie hangs in the upstairs clubroom beneath an enormous portrait of Jones.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 16, 2012

Jones reached in his bag for a hickory-shafted mashie, roughly equivalent to a 5-iron.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2012

Yet the absence of such ribbon bunkers does not prevent the man who likes to play his high mashie shots from still playing them.

From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Leach, Henry