I receieved a great book this year for Christmas, A Disorderly Compendium of Golf, by Lorne Rubenstein and Jeff Neuman. I've found it a lot of fun and wanted to share some of my favorite passages from the book. The first is a list of great words to use for bad golf shots. I've heard of some of them- but others are brand new to me, and with my game sure to get a lot of play in 2008!

Banana Ball
Blade
Block
Blue Darter
Chili-Dip
Chunk
Cold-Top
Dub
Duck Hook
Duff
E.A. (Elephant's Ass- it's high and it stinks)
El Hosel
Fat
Flub
Fluff
Foozle (rarle use anymore, unfortunately; means any bad shot)
Hack
Heel Job
Lateral
Quacker
Sclaff (when the golfer hits the ground before the ball)
Scuff
Shank
Skank
Skull
Sky
Smother
Snap-Hook
Snapper
Socket
Thin
Top
Whiff
Yap

Excerpted from A Disorderly Compendium of Golf
Copyright 2006 by Lorne Rubenstein and Jeff Neuman
Used by permission of Workman Publishing Co., Inc. New York
All Rights Reserved

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