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
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
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
Of iron clubs there were the cleek, the iron and the niblick.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.