putter
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The top-ranked pairing continued to labour however, with a frustrated England star Hull struggling with her putter, as the US pair of Yealimi Noh and Andrea Lee secured a 1-up victory.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Harrington, the 2026 US Senior Open champion, drove the ball well but was let down by indifferent iron play and a cool putter.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
“When I’m working, I just don’t cook at all basically, and then when I get time off I like to putter around in the kitchen. I’m not very good, but I like to do it.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
They allow gimmes if the putt is within the shaft of your putter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
At the fireplace, Jean Louise had picked up a blackened old wooden-shaft putter which had done years of doubleduty as a poker.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
The occasion often feels tacked-on amid the barbecues and the shiny putters trotted out like obligations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Within 12 months, Scheffler had risen into the top 15 putters and completed a remarkable season, winning seven PGA Tour events, including a second Masters, and an Olympic gold medal at the Paris Games.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
Before the finals, the shot putters emerged from a tunnel, one by one, pausing in front of a television camera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024
She switched putters this week and it clicked in the second round.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
As the rickshaw putters along the road, darting through traffic, I drag to my lips the question that's been stuck in my heart for so long.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
Simson's moped division puttered on after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall but eventually went bust in 2002.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
The previous record was set 90 years ago — only about three decades after the first cars puttered through Yosemite Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
Things puttered along until Elfster’s big break, which came in 2009: Claire’s hired the company for a Secret Santa campaign.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2022
Fueled largely by rookie running back Najee Harris and Roethlisberger’s burgeoning trust in rookie tight end Pat Freiermuth, Pittsburgh puttered along by avoiding mistakes and letting the defense do its thing.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
Kvothe and Bast puttered about, trying to look busy.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
During communist days, chronic shortages and years-long waiting lists for cars like the puttering Trabant meant that mopeds and motorcycles became an indispensable way to get around.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Shahed drones have been dubbed "flying mopeds" by Ukrainians because of their puttering engines.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
I would sometimes see him puttering around the library in our part of Arlington, Virginia.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025
That’s Steve Carell puttering away as the motel’s eager-to-please manager, busily preparing rooms for various harried convention guests played by Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis and Stephen Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
“Marigold’s practicing oboe”—Cady flicked an elbow toward an upstairs window, from which faint, stilted notes of music had been puttering for the last several minutes—“but I don’t know about Zane and Will.”
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
