How To Use Niblick In A Sentence
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Tell golfing partners for the 40th time how the phrase mashie niblick always makes you laugh.
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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
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Never mind the mashies and the niblicks, get to work on the dolphin, reverse scoop, barrel and canoe sculls.
Times, Sunday Times
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I cannot believe I am old enough to have played with a niblick, but I did.
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‘The history of clubs is evolutionary,’ he contends, ‘from niblicks to muscle-back blades to cavity backs to now this.’
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If the thing was to be done at all," observes the Oldest Member, approvingly, "it was unquestionably a niblick shot.
What Links Wodehouse, Fleming and Updike?
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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.
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Course, most are in such outdated places they're still waiting for a visit from someone not wearing a tweed jacket and wielding a niblick.
Times, Sunday Times
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He knows the right way to wrap his fingers around his niblick!
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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
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She eventually snaps and lets him have it in the head with her niblick.
What Links Wodehouse, Fleming and Updike?
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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.
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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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So the Minister realized he was bunkered and had to fall back on his niblick -- in other words confess his error to the House.
Forty Years in the British House of Commons
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Look at how the golf club has been taken out of the hands of the greatest athlete who ever held a niblick.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: I'm With Arnold
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And he'd take out a mashie niblick [7-iron] - not a mashie [5-iron], a mashie niblick!
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The American Dream comes down to a rural idyll with membership card and niblick.
Times, Sunday Times
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Poile, who had grown up on Wodehouse's golfing yarns, discovered that the modern game was not just about irons and niblicks.
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Some were born to golfers, and golf; others came to the game unbidden, of parents who wouldn't know a niblick from a noodle.
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For instance, the niblick is a short club for taking the ball out of difficult positions ( "lies") as when the latter gets into long grass, sand or some other awkward kind of obstruction.
Entertainments for Home, Church and School
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Open is about history and using cool words such as mashie and niblick.
Selection of Valhalla a mistake
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A charming effect was produced by a guard of honour, composed of members of the golf club, holding aloft crossed brassies, beneath which the happy pair passed into the church, while the caddies clashed niblicks and other iron clubs.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914
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The history is this: In 1921, some members of the City Club, a private club in the District, wanted a place to swing their mashie niblicks.
Old Beaver Dam golf course couldn't hold back development
