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mashie

[ UK /mˈæʃi/ ]
NOUN
  1. middle-distance iron

How To Use mashie In A Sentence

  • Jones was 170 yards from the green and seemingly out of reach because of his lie, but he took a mashie and landed safely on the heart of the green.
  • The various rules governing who can and can't hoist their mashie niblick around the famous Old Course – let alone who can sip a reviving Gin and It in the clubhouse – are rather too byzantine for speedy summary and perhaps in any case beyond the understanding of fluffy-headed ladies. Golf's bogey men belong to another age | Alex Clark
  • Never mind the mashies and the niblicks, get to work on the dolphin, reverse scoop, barrel and canoe sculls. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm still not that bad with my mashie niblick today out on the Weymouth pitch and putt, but back in my teens, it was a bit of a steep learning curve.
  • The various rules governing who can and can't hoist their mashie niblick around the famous Old Course – let alone who can sip a reviving Gin and It in the clubhouse – are rather too byzantine for speedy summary and perhaps in any case beyond the understanding of fluffy-headed ladies. Golf's bogey men belong to another age | Alex Clark
  • The only eagles I see these days are soaring above the high ridges on a tramp across the hills - unencumbered, of course, by spoons or mashie niblicks.
  • However, to the hesitating golfer, or to him whose mashie play so far has been somewhat disappointing, I give with confidence the advice to use a mashie which is very fairly lofted and which is deep in the blade. The Complete Golfer
  • It is properly classified as a mashie shot, but there are golfers who do it with an iron. The Complete Golfer
  • Tell golfing partners for the 40th time how the phrase mashie niblick always makes you laugh.
  • I have two drivers, one brassy, a baffy or spoon, two cleeks (one shorter than the other), an iron, sometimes one mashie, sometimes two (one for running up and the other for pitch shots), a niblick, and sometimes two putters (one for long running-up putts and the other for holing out). The Complete Golfer
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