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

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

And then there are the nicknames for this inner society’s tools: big dog, flat stick, belly putter, cavity back, hosel, kickpoint, camber, off-set, niblick, mashie, brassie, bounce, flange.

From New York Times • May 31, 2010

She took her mashie, and made a gallant but unsuccessful effort to jump her ball over Pip's.

From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian