niblick

Example Sentences

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Old Morris passed on his mashie niblick — an early term for a seven iron — to his equally talented son, Young Tom Morris, who won the British Open four times from 1868 to 1872.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2025

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

My 83 was a sorry thing, but I did hit a niblick to remember.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 29, 2017

Yaya Touré turned a foot into a niblick that dinked the ball up and into David Silva's path.

From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2013

They criticised the pipe unfavourably, and then one of them recorded a painful incident of the game in the following terse and pregnant sentence: "Here Mr. Hutchinson broke his niblick, his favourite club."

From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.