brassie
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It was also an impressive feat, given that Terry and his teammates were hitting rubberlike gutta percha balls with handmade wooden-shafted clubs that, instead of numbers, bore names like brassie, niblick, spoon and cleek.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2021
At Colonial that year, Ben Hogan took me to his plant in Fort Worth and gave me a club that was stamped "3" on the bottom but was really a strong brassie, or 2-wood.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 26, 2018
And then there are the nicknames for this inner society’s tools: big dog, flat stick, belly putter, cavity back, hosel, kickpoint, camber, off-set, niblick, mashie, brassie, bounce, flange.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2010
Jurado made his big mistake when he sent his brassie shot into the crowd on the tenth fairway and took a five.
From Time Magazine Archive
“That reminds me, I found a brassie up in the hills.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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