putter

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“When I’m working, I just don’t cook at all basically, and then when I get time off I like to putter around in the kitchen. I’m not very good, but I like to do it.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

They allow gimmes if the putt is within the shaft of your putter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

He said the past two weeks had boosted his confidence in his putter, and it certainly showed as he needed just 22 putts, gaining more than five strokes on the field on the greens.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

I think I’m just a serial putterer, in that I putter around and I don’t know what I’m doing a lot of the time.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Ever since her own parents died, these visits from her mother-in-law had taken on extra importance, and she’d putter around the house, cleaning and cooking, biting her nails as she went.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller