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
Some newspaper reports say the epiphany came on the ninth fairway at Pine Valley when he hit a spade mashie to five feet, but I like the Miracle of the Bridge.
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 26, 2017
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
Yet the absence of such ribbon bunkers does not prevent the man who likes to play his high mashie shots from still playing them.
From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Henry Leach
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
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
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Girl champions appeared played for a few years, then got married and forgot their mashies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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However, not all golfers consider two mashies to be necessary, and I myself depend chiefly upon one.
From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon