mashie
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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
But forget about carrying the golf clubs unless your collection is limited to a single niblick or mashie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2016
He got his first golf club — a hickory-shaft mashie, similar to the modern 5-iron — and taught himself the game.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2013
In the lovely brick and half-timbered clubhouse-cum-museum, where it is 1926 still, the mashie hangs in the upstairs clubroom beneath an enormous portrait of Jones.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 16, 2012
Evans heeled his long mashie shot to the right of the green, from which he missed his four and conceded the hole, Sawyer being dead in 3.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer
The others are from days of mashies and niblicks: Harry Cooper and Macdonald Smith.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 26, 2020
Also performing well were the "patent clubs," all those weird specialty clubs from the turn of the century -- water mashies, rake irons, mammoth-headed niblicks, roller-sole putters and adjustable-head irons.
From Golf Digest ● May 31, 2012
Girl champions appeared played for a few years, then got married and forgot their mashies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still, while other golfers with such abominable luck might be smashing their mashies and pulverizing their putters, Norman's confidence remains unshaken.
From Time Magazine Archive
One is often told that "all mashies should be played with the wrist."
From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon
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