niblick
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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
It was also an impressive feat, given that Terry and his teammates were hitting rubberlike gutta percha balls with handmade wooden-shafted clubs that, instead of numbers, bore names like brassie, niblick, spoon and cleek.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2021
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
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
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