putter

Example Sentences

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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

The US-based Cornishman - arguably the world's best putter - is ranked 10 places lower at 57th, despite reaching the season-ending Tour Championship.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

If ever there was a place where a woman would putter around, patting mud packs on her face and sitting under a drier, it would be a velvetsoft, diamond-gem beauty parlor!

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury