dogleg
Example Sentences
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“There’s not too many sort of doglegs. It’s all there just straight in front of me, and that’s the kind of golf course I like.”
From Washington Post
The 15th hole was a dogleg left, and required a right-to-left draw off the tee, not the purposeful slice Woods had been hitting.
From New York Times
Tigerleg has supplanted dogleg as the more currently discussed golf term.
From Seattle Times
To follow its wrenched syntax is to experience the frustrating dogleg lanes of consciousness, the distortions and failures of memory and self-narration.
From New York Times
He hit two good tee shots in the opening two rounds and both found the pond on the dogleg of the par 5.
From Seattle Times
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