niblick

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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

He then had the humiliation of exchanging his putter for his niblick, and, we may assume without being unkind, that was the last seriously competitive round he ever played.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 31, 2020

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

At free-kicks from the edge of the box he could affect a niblick chip into the top corner or a driven three-wood with draw or fade.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2012

Truly they are not, and those old traditions had nothing to do with gutties either; but Duncan Forbes would have rejoiced in the possession of a modern driver and mashie niblick.

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